Perhaps no C-level position has undergone as many changes in expectations, approaches, and philosophies, during the past few decades, as that of the Chief Information Officer. In addition to running the business of IT, CIOs must also drive the direction and implementation of technology within the organization. IT must simultaneously meet the current, basic IT needs of the Business, plan for future business growth, and embrace emerging technologies.The CIO along with the CMO will define the future of Business in 2015. Some of the key challenges that CIOs and IT teams are faced with today include:

Management Challenges

• Cost Vs. Value – Seemingly conflicting mandates of IT Cost Reduction and increasing Business Value delivered by IT
• Alignment to Business – Need for IT organizations to be agile and scalable, to enable the Business to adapt to a rapidly changing industry landscape and to stay ahead of competition
• IT Transparency – Lack of IT Cost and Quality transparency to drive change in IT consumption behavior and prioritize critical IT resources to business growth initiatives
• Service-centricity – Moving away from a technology-centric IT organization to a services-centric structure for end-to-end accountability of IT Service performance

Technology Challenges

• Disparate technology platforms that pose a challenge to Business Agility & Scalability
• Increasing maintenance & support cost of Legacy IT Systems and Infrastructure
• Organizational silos in global organizations with geographically distributed operations, leading to IT Infrastructure, Applications and Personnel Redundancy
• Leveraging current/emerging Technologies (Cloud / Mobility / Analytics)
• Consumerization of IT (anytime, anywhere, any-device computing)

To address these challenges, traditional approaches to managing IT from a technology/production perspective alone are no longer adequate. You must be armed with the right facts and metrics on IT Cost, Quality, Consumption and Benefits, collaborate with your business partners to make cost-quality trade-offs, drive the right levels of investment in projects and services, and maximize the value from every dollar invested in IT.

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