Transform IT, Transform The Enterprise

Today’s successful CIOs transform IT by understanding the challenges of the business and aligning resources and initiatives to corporate goals. They market IT as a business enabler and do everything they can to dispel previous perceptions of IT as nothing but a help desk and a technology custodian. They inspire and motivate IT staff to participate in a service-oriented culture. They enable IT transformation by consolidating fragmented IT systems, by leveraging new sourcing models like cloud, by automating anything possible, and by offering business people an intuitive self-service IT storefront to get what they need to do their job.

During a recent CIO leadership forum, 24 CIOs and other senior IT leaders discussed the role of the IT leader in the modern enterprise. The group shared strategies they used to change IT and assert their organizations as business leaders and innovators. This paper provides CIOs and IT leaders with insight into three IT imperatives these IT executives used to reposition IT and transform the enterprise:
1. Drive enterprise visibility and standardization;
2. Make IT more intuitive, approachable and business-friendly;
3. Accelerate IT responsiveness and innovation.