Read the 2021 CIO Priorities Report
Use Info-Tech’s 2021 CIO
Priorities Report to prepare for the uncertainty of the year ahead. Across our
five priorities we provide five avenues through which CIOs can demonstrate
resilient planning, enabling the organization as a whole to better confront what’s
coming in 2021.
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2021 CIO Priorities Report – Executive Brief
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2021 CIO Priorities Report – The Five Priorities
1. Create an appropriate budget reserve
Identifying and planning
sources of financial contingency will help ensure CIOs can meet unforeseen and
emergent operational and business needs throughout the year.
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2021 CIO Priorities Report: Priority 1 – Create an Appropriate Budget Reserve
2. Refocus IT risk planning
The start of 2021 is a time
to refocus and redouble IT risk management and business continuity planning to bring it up to the standards of our “new normal.” Indeed, if last year
taught us anything, it’s that no “black swan” should be off the table in terms
of scenarios or possibilities for business disruption.
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2021 CIO Priorities Report: Priority 2 – Refocus IT Risk Planning
3. Strengthen organizational change management capabilities
At its heart, resilience is
having the capacity to deal with unexpected change. Organizational change
management can help build up this capacity, providing the ability to
strategically plot known changes while leaving some capacity to absorb the
unknowns as they present themselves.
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2021 CIO Priorities Report: Priority 3 – Strengthen Organizational Change Management Capabilities
4. Establish capacity awareness
Capacity
awareness facilitates resilience by providing capital in the form of resource
data. With this data, CIOs can make better decisions on what can be approved
and when it can be scheduled for.
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2021 CIO Priorities Report: Priority 4 – Establish Capacity Awareness
5. Keep emerging technologies in view
Having
an up-to-date view of emerging technologies will enable the resilient CIO to
capitalize on and deploy leading-edge innovations as the business requires.
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2021 CIO Priorities Report: Priority 5 – Keep Emerging Technologies in View
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