Despite characterizations of the modern CIO as a straight-up business leader and strategist, many CIOs still spend the bulk of their time on technical issues.
Many IT leaders today are focused more on security management as well as improving IT operations and systems performance than they are on top-line and strategic activities such as driving business innovation, identifying competitive differentiation opportunities, and even working on business strategy.
Tech execs listed security management and improving IT operations and systems performance as their top two responsibilities in CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey, with 47% and 40% of tech execs respectively reporting as much.
