How many archetypes of CIO/CTO do you observe in the market?
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CEO in Services (non-Government)3 months ago
A few, the enterprise, back office one: only running the support systems, infrastructure and help desk, the enterprise plus, same as before but also running business shared services (eg finance, procurement, ops), the product centric one (focused on customer and employee experiences, digital channels, innovation) and the digital native one, seeing in pure product companies that is close to be a CEO given its product is the business itself (a SaaS company). There are mixes of these archetypes but high level these are the main ones I see.Board Member in Healthcare and Biotech3 months ago
1. Technical leaders who love their Servers, network, infra, data center, cloud and know how to manage this well2. The CIO grown from software background, loves ERP, CRM, SCM, AI, and more; will do what pads the resume
3. Combo of 1&2, not too many who understand both sides of the coin; can create good IT Architecture diagrams, and deliver
4. Business Technology leaders who balance the Tech with Business outcomes, this breed is rising slowly and steadily
5. Business leaders who understand technology and focus on business transformation. This is the new breed that wants to take over IT as it is too important to be left to techies
6. The clueless CIO, got there with the gift of the gab, keeps going round in circles, rarely delivers, short tenures in every company as performance catches up.
Director of IT3 months ago
as per one of the article published by CIO.com there are 8 Archetypes of CIO.Trusted Operator
Business Co-creator
Broker
Integrator
Orchestrator
Change Instigator
CIO Plus
Vanguard
however looking at the market condition, there are more
Balancer who is ambitious and try to do balancing act between business and IT most of the time.
Innovator: Maximum focus on innovation whether business, IT or operation. They ar emost useful but often take their eye away from running sustainable IT.