Peter High, President of Metis Strategy, was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Report, in an article called “The Morning Download: CIOs Get No Respect”
Article by Michael Hickins, Editor, on WSJ.com CIO Journal
Except from the article:
Good morning. If you have a sneaking suspicion that people are making decisions behind your back, the good news is you’re not being paranoid. The bad news is that those people probably include your CEO. New research from Gartner shows just 4% of chief executives consider their CIOs partners in managing either strategy or innovation. This goes a long way towards explaining why so many CIO jobs are advertised as strategic, but end up being largely operational.
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Peter High, president of Metis Strategy, a CIO advisory, says the survey is “emblematic of the CIO’s dilemma,” and reflects the extent to which CIOs are under-appreciated by the rest of the executive suite. High says CIOs can change this perception by leading conversations about how IT can support initiatives for human resources, legal and compliance and marketing departments.
To read the remainder of the article, please visit the Wall Street Journal CIO Journal.
If interested, pleas read a related article on how CIOs can position themselves for business success, written by Peter High and published in ON Magazine.
