Leadership in IT: CIO Role in Management of Information Technology

This report provides a detailed analysis of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role in the context of information technology management. It begins with an introduction defining the CIO's responsibilities in IT strategy and computer systems, emphasizing their strategic contributions to organizations. The report includes a literature review, examining the evolution of the CIO role, its strategic importance, and the need for business and industry-specific knowledge. It also presents a current practice report, discussing the CIO's functions and responsibilities at a unit level, and compares the literature review with current practices. The report highlights the CIO's role in risk assessment, change management, and strategic thinking, concluding with the importance of adapting to corporate culture and aligning with senior management's expectations. Finally, the report also emphasizes the CIO's role in finance, recruiting, policy development, and strategy.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Literature review..................................................................................................................3
Current Practice Report.......................................................................................................5
Compare literature and current practice..............................................................................8
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................12
References..........................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Chief information officer is considered as an executive job that is generally provided to
person at an organization in charge of IT strategy as well as computer system needed for
supporting unique goals as well as objectives of the organization. CIOs are emphasized primarily
more technical projects. The role of CIOs is viewed as the key contributors to develop goals of
the organization as storage, transmittal as well as analysis of information across the industries. It
results increased strategic responsibilities where CIOs in the large organizations delegate day-to-
day operations, transmittal as well as analysis of the results. In addition, chief information officer
at one-organization reports to the CIO as well as IT staffs. Present study deals with literature
review of the current study. In addition, current work regarding the topic is discussed in the
paper.
Literature review
Chief information officer or chief digital information officer is given a title name to the
most senior executive as well as enterprise responsible for traditional information technology
along with computer systems. The CIO reports to chief executive officer. However, the role of
CIO is including the reporting. The CIOs from a key part of the business is using technology as
well as data. In current times, it has been identified that comprehending of business is not
adequate. The important role minimizes expenditure as well as limitations are considered as
important for using ICT frameworks. The role is minimization of expenditure as well as
limitations that can damage through setting up controls along with possible disasters. On the
other hand, it is required to develop strategy that is helpful to calculate the increasing profits.

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Setting up effective controls would be helpful to increase profits that use technology as
well as data. ICT frameworks are important role of minimizing the role so that it will be helpful
for the organizations. The CIO of an organization is also responsible for different roles. It is
important to consider that CIO needs to fulfill role of business leaders. Hence, it is required to
take effective decisions about the role of the organization. Hence, in order to lead as well as
direct the role of CIO, it is required to make an executive decision that would be helpful for
leading as well as directing workforce to direct the role. It is related for a chief information
officer of the organization. Moreover, the CIOs are directly needed to map out ICT strategy as
well as policy of the organization. ICT strategy is required to map out ICT strategy along with
policies of the organization.
CIs are needed to map out the strategies as well as policies of the organization. The ICT
strategies can cover the future proofing, procurement as well as external and internal standards of
the organization. However, ICT strategy will be helpful to make the policy detailing the
procedure of use. These are required for protecting organization in short and long term along
with the procedure of strategizing for future. As CIO has important role for protecting the
organization, it is required for short and long term process.
It is more fundamental than whenever in late memory that CIOs have general business
figuring out how to give bits of information as well as vision that needs to meet the solicitations
of a senior level position and reinforce overall strategy of the organization (Themistocleous et al.
2016). A significant parcel of the present CIOs picked up their formal preparing when specific
wellness is considered as a fundamental focus or business data was wider in nature. The present
CIO needs industry specific learning and general business capacity. Rate of return (ROI) has
transformed into an immense bit of the condition (Morabito et al. 2015). In the midst of earlier

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times of development headway, especially the web irritate, associations discharged money into
advancement without giving cautious thought to ROI. These roles require wellness in
organization and development and in addition especially in all-inclusive business (De Tuya et al.
2017). There is a need today for more formalized data that keeps an eye on the exceptional issues
related with cooperating comprehensively. This learning will be anticipated from future CIOs
and those longing CIOs who are prepared to go organization programs today.
The present CIOs require unprecedented aptitudes for achievement in general markets.
Regardless of the way that we have battled for a significant long time for the importance of all
inclusive business adapting, similarly starting late has this overall business condition created to
the degree that associations are truly fighting in an overall business focus (Haffke et al. 2016).
Current Practice Report
Some analysis has been driven at the helpful unit level which reports roleicularly to the
CIO. The limits of the information systems claim to fame unit should urge an association's
ability to abuse information advancement. A scope of capacities to help this limit would involve
specific aptitudes, business learning, and social capacities (Van Grembergen and De Haes 2017).
A capacity perspective will help focus attempts on tending to issues instead of simply treating
symptoms. Further, these limits must have the ability to help the achievement of the association's
goals and objectives.
In 1998 Korn/Ferry International spread the results of an overall analysis of three
hundred and forty CIOs used by "Times 1000" relationship regarding changing role inside their
connection. Right when the analysis happens as intended were spread in 1998 it was expected
that CIOs wound up skimming between an extremely orchestrated past and a key business

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engineered future (Dahlberg et al. 2016). The past identified with a thought on advantageously
utilizing best in class equipment and programming. While the future displayed developing
responsibility in central business arranging and no more senior authentic level. The report also
showed that the organizations could suitably deal with distinction in the role that will extend
high ground. Hence, it is required that both the organization and CIO can appreciate role of CIO
role, should advance from a data dealing with capacity to a segment in light of learning
association and progression. The CIO role made with the target that one senior expert could be
doled out the general corporate responsibility concerning an association's data arranging needs. It
was viewed as essential both for survival and to accomplish high ground that the business
objectives are reflected in the activities of the data headway work. Work advertisements for data
structures positions over a twenty-year time navigate from 1970 to 1990 (Singh 2015). For the
data framework CIO position they picked an enduring theme identifying with a mix of specific
limit and business information, joined with competent social aptitudes. Reliably while these roles
have stayed obvious, the blend has changed. It can be recommended that the bit of the CIO has
passed through different stages and is in the fourth wave.
This progression suggesting that, while CIOs should notwithstanding be gotten some
answers concerning improvement, they ought to in like way make a point to manufacture
association with other senior individuals from the connection and to think purposefully
concerning the utilization of headway for the general favored stance of the organization (Krotov
2015). The bit of the CIO is connecting with combine more threat evaluation, change
association, essential thinking, and offering at the honest to goodness level.

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Compare literature and current practice
A Grounded Theory viewpoint was taken for this analysis, which proposes that subjective
information are accumulated identified with an analysis question from get some information
about people who have organization and learning of the region under scrutiny. Further, a
subjective research approach was received in light of narrative inquiry, which engages recording
research roles memories and translations of individual encounters. Record Inquiry consolidates,
the emblematic introduction of a movement of occasions related by subject and related by time
and wires the contemplations of lucidly rich and incidentally confined. Keenly rich memories are
those that are experienced direct and are most unmistakably audited. Prior to the social affairs
could be guided it was basic to discover people who were amped up for the undertaking and who
may volunteer to take an interest (Rehm et al. 2015). Through different individual contacts
people were sent data about the task. The general population who reacted granting energy for the
endeavor was come to and given additional data.
Specific get-togethers were organized with every CIO who volunteered. Some were
facilitated close, while others were done by strategies for the phone. In all cases, the social
occasions were sound taped. Generally, any cures identified with spellings of names or towns or
were a prompt outcome of not well characterized remarks made amidst the social occasion. To
ground the exchange the analysis people's precious encounters a social event custom was utilized
which guided an asked for talk of the CIO's own consideration. The social event convention was
made in context of the Long Interview Technique (Zafar et al. 2016). Requirements were
postured concerning the analysis of past occupation and individual encounters roles. A
continuous method was taken after from early life, through formal rule, and into the assorted
positions held all through their work up until the present position.

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With a specific extreme goal to ground, the trade in the analysis people's precious
encounters a social affair custom was utilized which guided a successive discourse of the CIO's
own specific understanding. The social affair custom was made in context of the Long Interview
Technique (Luftman et al. 2015). Requirements were acted concerning the past business role of
analysis and individual encounters.
In any case, how the parts are finished will be impacted more by corporate culture than
by societal culture. The CIO relates course of action to the wants of senior organization and the
illustration. It is fundamental to the CIO and senior organization that there is understanding and
assertion with respect to part wants.
Management of the company
As the CIO has a set of responsibilities like provision of finance, recruiting professional
as well as development of policy along with strategy. The risks are vast in its nature. Thus, the
role of CIO is forced into the resignation after the theft of 40 million details of credit cards along
with 70 million customer details by the hackers. They can carry out a large set of role along with
chances of failure is high.
Management of the function
Fragile aptitudes, for instance, ability to pass on are seen as goal. Other fragile aptitudes
included directing people and filling in as a partner. The acquisition of specific capacities will
require a specific getting ready program for every association depending on the blend of legacy
systems, cross-utilitarian structures, and electronic business application. The prominence of CIO
position has risen as information. It has become an important part of the mode. It is required to
become an important part of information. The CIO is a member of the organization. Several

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prominence of the CIO position has risen as information, where information technology has an
important role. It is needed to involve a board level depending on the successful completion of
work. In this perspective, there are no specific qualifications for the organization. Operating
structure as well as governance environment is involved with the candidate.
In addition, various associations are joining the possibility of business knowledge to help
executives dealing with the huge measure of information that is available with information
development. Data conveyance focuses outline the base for ERP structures and may be addressed
in an extensive variety of courses with data mining frameworks.
On the other hand, the role of CIO gives an important interface between the business as
well as ICT. Hence, appointing a CIO, an equivalent senior manager needs to reinforce. A CIO
can combine with the institutional business requirements as well as perspective of the users’
requirements. Hence, differentiating characteristics of CIO is considered as the ability for the
organization. The characteristics of CIO and its ability for being enthusiasm in work is involved
in the process. A chief information officer needs to be a member of senior management team and
responsible for the activities.
Conclusion
As the CIO part goes up against considerably more a business highlight, it ends up being
more imperative that the specific individual brings the key business experience. Finally, this
analysis study addresses a through and through examination of the role of the CIO.

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