As technology has advanced, the CTO role has changed to keep pace. Technology can describe everything from materials science to the deployment of robotics in internal processes to the latest “everything as a service” models. Digitization now permeates all aspects of so many businesses, making ...
was a firsthand witness to the shift. When he started out as a youngCTOin the 1990s, the CIOs he knew were IT operators -- by necessity. "They were essentially managing a manufacturing process: How do you put out raw compute that is reliable...
This kind of number is much closer to the truth, and much more operationally useful – and the job of the CIO is to declare how this number should be found, tracked and displayed. It may seem somewhat simple to say this, but this is where there should be no question of the source of...