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Good one, I would have said you keep the lights on and keep things running but now CIO should be Chief Innovation Officer

Extra points for creativity!

Cutting edge e-commerce

It's about eliminating overheads while staying secure. Empower workers to do more with less.

I'd explain the CIO as the executive who drives an organization's efforts to ensure that its information assets drive business success.

When everything is totally f'd up, call me. The CIO.

- ha that's a great question, as the role changes every time we try to "nail it down" in plain english

I like to think of it this way, when your phone is old, you always want the latest technology. That is what the CIO is doing for business. They are constantly ahead of the game so customers get the most recent version of their business.

Do not reinvent the will, customer service #1

@nancykoppdw Love that Nancy, Chief Innovation Officer.

The CIO is the executive responsible for ensuring that data- and analytic-driven outcomes span all functional areas of the business.

@TamaraMcCleary good one, as i wait anxiously for my new iphone!

- if I try to answer the "explain it to me like I'm a 3 year old" it's often "the CIO is the person who magically makes the things people ask for transmogrify into actual working things they can use powered by technology" ;-)

I would like to think the role is unique to each and every organization.

making everyone in the organization know what they need to know #IBMCIO #Crowdchat #IBM #RSGMedia

I would say a role that is the new CEO

the CIO used to focus on automation, now they need to be more of a futurist, need to enable the company to be more efficient, need to enable optimization along with innovation (and keep the lights on)

CIO is the person who is tasked with identification, collection, curation and usage of all required data, both from internal and external sources so as to empower employees and drive customer satisfaction.

The CIO drives data-driven productivity at all levels, especially knowledge workers and line-of-business. The CDO manages the core data and analytics enablers of that. The CTO manages the platforms underpinning it all.

- probably one of the most difficult things to address is that there is no "one shoe fits all" CIO per se, every vertical "industry" or "market segment" comes with it's own technology requirements CIO's need to deal with

Face it the CIO is a dead end. The CIO is now the CEO

@jsnburns I would absolutely agree with you Jason. The role of #CIO is unique to each organization.

If you're talking the SMB market, the CIO is the one that cleans up everyone's business mess.

i would get @dvellante in here for this question

@furrier Good to see you here John :)

love the phrase move from pets to cattle

- one thing I do tell folk when I have the opportunity to try to explain the "role" of a CIO is focus on the person that often fills the role, the human wearing the hat as they too are each unique

@jameskobielus agreed!!

@furrier CIO is now the CEO . . . In whose opinion? THe CIO's or the CEO's?

Responsible for using technology to drive productivity and revenue

- there's been a huge shift away from the traditional "old grey hair dude" in CIO's to young vibrant whipper snappers and thankfully more women in the role than ever before too !!

@paulawilesigmon the #cio in the past managed a silo'd organization for the company now IT is the entire company so the role is CEO like impacting not just bottom line but top line

I'll vote to that - more women CIOs!!!

@nancykoppdw Kim Stevenson was the best CIO woman that I ever knew

@nancykoppdw I'll second that Nancy. We not only need more #women #CIO's but #womenintech in general.

also think your new age CIO has to have (digital) marketing acumen.

@nancykoppdw - communication is probably the single greatest skill any CIO can have and can offer, and god knows men aren't always great communicators

@dez_blanchfield LOL yes this I believe is very true

@nancykoppdw - having a high IQ may help but what we need more in any new CIO is a high EQ and curiously women seem to come with higher EQ than most men which is huge value proposition in any CIO ;-)

@mowenranger - being able to "walk on water" is apparently starting to push to the top of the Skill Sets required as well ;-)

- curiously roles like CEO, CFO, and COO have not had to "transform" so greatly, but the role of CIO is like this revolving door of bodies knowledge and skills that never seems to stop "spinning" ;-(

@dez_blanchfield I'm adding that as a skill on #LinkedIn. Will need endorsements :)

I know in my country that does not exist for various scenarios. Sadly. And as I like to manage this. Not trying to be pessimistic. But I've never heard this term in my country, CIO

A5 Failure is a necessary component of innovation. Without taking risk there would be no reward. Companies that are not willing to fail will be disrupted by those who are.

I think its really the MOST important to embrace. It's been years we have been in the mode of big delivery, waterfall dev. That all changes with cloud and digital

Agility is very important, but sometimes very hard to achieve, especially if individuals don't feel empowered to act without fear of repercussions

If an organization is in a dynamic business environment where the rules for survival are changing moment to moment, constant experimentation is table stakes for survival. Fast failure = fast learning = fast innovation.

extremely important - but there must be a method to the madness! - Pani #IBMCIO #Crowdchat #IBM #RSGMedia

the digital transformation and engagement and agile go hand in hand

Todo "fracaso rápido" es un aprendizaje, es una experiencia inovadora.

vital if attached to learn fr mistakes and recover stronger.

Who knew fail fast would be a good thing right?

Agile culture very important, failure must be respected. Problem is Legacy systems such as ERP or CRM haven't evolved to support agile culture and there in lies the problem for CIO/CTO.

There is no choice.

I'm at a startup now (@appuricorp) and it's very important. We like to do experiments quickly (e.g., A/B testing in mrktg, sales). We don't fail fast; we learn fast. If we don't, our competitors will.

- you have to also mention "behavior" when you say "culture" ;-) they are so tightly interlinked it's impossible to spererate them.

Critical. And it's about CULTURE of agile. It needs to permeate thru the org. If the CIO is pushing agile but mid-managers aren't encouraging, it's a problem.

I'm not a big fan of failing in general i'm a fan of innvoation and invention which requires failure to grow- I hate the notion of rewarding failure - the outcome is the goal not failing :-)

@bobehayes Learn fast! That's a better idea!

- there's been a recent almost desperate "rush" to be "agile" but most folk have no idea what it actually means as far as Frameworks go to use it ;-)

@dez_blanchfield agreed. Sometimes it's better to measure culture by looking at what people do.

agile is a must, the days of long delivery and control are just plain over

Every company, no matter how established and profitable, can quickly be deconstructed by a fast-changing competitive landscape. Fast experimentation (e.g., constant data-driven A/B testing) must permeate everything. Adopt what works.

- I actually get fed up seeing DIY post-it note Kanban "walls" pop up all over the place and then hear folk say "oh we've gone Agile" ;-)

@paulawilesigmon Agreed. This is why it's more about culture than any particular tech.

it's a pretty big cultural shift to accept fail fast as a good thing, but you have to think the faster you fail the faster you get the right answer

@HKotadia Well said Harish. There is a value in saying agility for agility sake isn't helpful either.

@dez_blanchfield and i bet in that rush there is more talk of agile in powerpoints than there is in action right?

@nancykoppdw Failing is a good thing when it's "minimal viable failure." In other words, when you're taking manageable risks, incrementally, one after another, with no one "bet the business" risk.

@dez_blanchfield Ha ha agreed. There's also the risk of "incrementalism". Tiny little improvements that are immaterial.

- sadly CxO's who don't come from a Delivery or Project "background" stare at me and say "I want us to go Agile.. now" and have no idea what that actually means at the delivery or operational end

@nancykoppdw - oh you have nailed it on the head there Nancy, big time - 10 points to Gryffindore !!

- in all seriousness though, if an organization truly wants to shift some parts of it's world to Agile is needs to be a "steady Eddy" shift, not a "jump in feet first" approach..

- yep, small steps, and not just department by department, but team by team, or project by project, initiative by initiative

@dez_blanchfield totally agree, jumping in can be a disaster because it's a rather large change

@furrier don't let the word failure bother you, its just incremental steps to success

- like all big shifts in any large group of people, and businesses are no different than any large group of humans - start with hearts and minds !!

@nancykoppdw I've been entrepreneur since 1997 many failures; failure sucks but growth comes from it; I can deal. The best is not the fail but the comeback :-)

@nancykoppdw - curiously though, folk throw stones at Waterfall frameworks like PMBOK and Prince 2 but often have no idea that they can be "agile" per se if delivered correctly

- there's unfortunately too many people screaming for Agile when they actually haven't fully understood any of the other Methodologies like PMBOK or Prince 2 fully yet !!

@dez_blanchfield i think its probably less about waterfall and more about agility and getting used to delivering a minimum viable product

@furrier should be called learn fast i think