CIOs Brace for 2021: A Bumpy Ride With Lots of Opportunity - InformationWeek

While 2020 won't likely rank on the list of best years ever, for IT leaders there really have been some silver linings. Maybe that's because the huge unexpected disruption of the year -- a pandemic that changed market demand, supply chain, and where and how we all work -- shined a spotlight on how technology and IT are engines that keep an organization functioning, even in the worst of times. At this point so many CIOs can talk about how they moved entire workforces to home technology setups over the course of a day or two. They fortified their VPNs, acquired laptops and other equipment, and put together remote collaboration strategies. Still others focused on the customer.