How Technology Will Change The Role of CIOs in 2020

The role of the CIO has been a rather turbulent one in recent years It’s fallen to CIOs to take the lead in directing businesses’ technology spend, giving them a far broader remit than they’d had previously. Before, CIOs had been tasked primarily with managing IT assets. Now, they play a leading role in determining how technology budgets are deployed, to maximize growth and return on investment. What explains the sudden shift in the responsibilities of the CIO? The leading factor is the advent of the cloud, and the transformative impacts this has had. Firms have been forced to adapt