CIO Advantage
Accelerate your journey to success
Deloitte’s CIO Advantage is an invitation to you, as CIO, to be vulnerable and honestly assess how you stack up against the ever-growing expectations and mandate of this role. It can serve as both a mirror and a window to help you reflect on where you are today and set the course for where you want to be tomorrow.
From our experiences, engagements, and conversations with clients across organizational size and industries, we still see two differentiated CIO personas: Those embracing the opportunity and reinventing their role, and those being viewed by themselves and others as running IT.
Which one are you?
By working to rediscover your strengths and blind spots, you can reinvent your approach by focusing on the “core” areas to help drive competitive career advantage and generate lasting impact.
Rise to the Challenge
The CIO’s role is constantly evolving and the opportunity surrounding it has never been greater. CIOs today are redefining their role in the organization and positioning technology as a strategic business driver.
Reinvent how you show up
By intentionally pursuing meaningful interactions with those around you, you can build trust, earn the respect of your peers, and establish yourself as an approachable leader. These actions will help build your credibility across the organization, signaling that you care about the people, culture, work, and processes.
Advocate for technology by showing how tech drives value by advancing strategic business priorities and creating competitive differentiation.
Be a strong communicator who is skilled in the arts of persuasion, influence and negotiation.
Cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and view the intersection of technology and the business as a fertile ground for value creation.
Strive to understand regulatory, market, and competitive forces that may affect your business and your business partners.
Create a mission-based workplace where top talent wants to work.
Blend a passion and curiosity for your business with a passion and curiosity for emerging technology.
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Rediscover your Advantage
CIOs are rising to the challenge of the “expanded mandate” and unlocking their potential by focusing on six transformational leadership areas. How are you creating advantage in each of these?
Lou DiLorenzo Jr
