BENCHMARKING THE IT FUNCTION AND CIO ROLE IN CANADA

Game Plan for Strategic, Enterprise-wide Collaboration: A summary of key findings

 

Playing is a Team Sport

Collaborating with others is increasingly important.

That’s the key message coming out of the 2nd annual CIO Census conducted by IT World Canada and CanadianCIO, in collaboration with the Canadian CIO Association, and sponsored by Rogers Data Centres.

 

IT leaders continue to create connections — to play well with others — within their organizations and external to it. Their objective — become more strategic, find efficiencies, boost productivity, reduce costs,  and safeguard the intellectual property of their organizations, as well as the bottom-line. Increasingly, they are also being called upon to help create true differentiation and a competitive advantage for their companies.

 

Key findings include:

Collaborating With Others is Increasingly Important – senior IT leaders play on a variety of teams, across functions, across organizations, and across the C-suite.

 

Playing Strong Offense and Defense is a Must – IT leaders highlighted the importance of being a strong two-way player, capable of increasing upside and reducing downside of risks and delivering on value, innovation and ROI.

 

CIOs Play to their Industries – aligning strategies and tactics by sector.