This year’s island themed CHIME15 Fall Forum created quite a splash as CHIME unveiled the full results of its year-long CIO survey in the session “The Evolving Role of the CIO: Aligning CIO Perspectives with the Executive Team.” CHIME surveyed 123 CIOs across the country, along with some CEOs and other c-suite-executive colleagues of those CIOs, to compile results.
Among the most significant findings, the survey found that both CIOs and other c-suite executives agreed that CIOs’ will be change agents within their organizations over the next several years. However, surveyed c-suite executives held a heighted belief (over CIOs’) that CIOs will need to be emerging technology innovators to proactively push organizations forward. Opinions aligned that CIOs cannot simply meet required operational tasks. They must now proactively lead beyond.
While change management earned the most votes as the most important CIO attribute, other survey options included talent management, senior management leadership, knowledge management and analytics, emerging technology and innovation and operational management.
According to Tim Zoph, session co-presenter and former CIO of Northwestern Medicine, if we think the healthcare industry is fast-paced now, it’s about to get even more chaotic. “There are a lot of forces for change, including organizational consolidation, consumerism, precision medicine, regulatory developments and payment model changes,” Zoph said.
Stay tuned for part II of our CHIME15 Fall Forum recap on the HITStoltenblog!