CEO Steve Bandrowczak’s playbook for CIO success today

We talk about AI like it’s this big, mysterious thing. AI has been with us for many years — the difference is, the ship is faster. We can store more data. Algorithms that have been around for a long time, techniques that have been around a long time, we can now process them so much faster — process data so much faster. All this is opening up real use cases. This changes the whole way you can drive new business models. 

For CIOs today, how do they become a visionary in this changing landscape of technology — not for the sake of technology, but for the sake of how they can drive and disrupt their own business? 

Big challenge there. Because a lot of the time when we talk about disruption, we talk about displacing jobs, displacing roles. We’re talking about doing things that have never been done before. 

So, for CIOs, how do you set that vision for their company, and communicate it in a way that’s, one, not scary, and that the business can go drive to that change, and then line up everything underneath to allow you to get there. 

How can they best overcome these headwinds? 

CIOs need to be visionaries. We talk about enterprise architects from an IT standpoint — they need to be enterprise architects from a business standpoint. 

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