CIOs just don't get it
At a time when visionary leadership is needed, most South African CIOs are stuck between two eras – the industrialisation of yesteryear and the digitalisation of tomorrow. It’s a transition that key IT industry also finds difficult to keep pace with, and there will be blood.
02 July 2014
A show of hands at the most recent CIO Council of South Africa’s quarterly meeting indicated that most delegates seemed to be ill-prepared and ill-equipped to deal with a ‘third era of IT’ – digitalisation.
In delivering the keynote address, Gartner analyst George Ambler said the first era revolved around IT geeks doing their own thing in basements and not deigning to speak to the business part of the enterprise.
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