Chief information officers and other business technology leaders are frequently reminded to break down silos around IT, integrating the department into the firm by partnering with managers and listening more directly to end user feedback. Even so, many firms continue to tolerate siloed decision-making in the C-suite, with effects that closely parallel the challenges commonly seen with isolated IT departments.
Increasingly, IT leaders must adjust to a new normal. According to this Building Digital Organizations report by my organization, CompTIA, only 19 percent of companies say IT owns the entire technology budget. As other business functions take command of the technology they want in their work routines, CIOs and other chief executives must work together to chart a course for their organization’s digital future.