19MAY 2019An organization's technology leader in 2017 faces a dizzying array of rapidly evolving technologies, which are creating interesting opportunities, and of course, amounts of data beyond all prior imagination. For most of our careers, technology has always helped enable better business outcomes. The velocity of technology change today seems to increase every month. For those who have the right vision and follow the right path, there is a distinct opportunity to create significant rewards for your organizations.The interesting challenge most of us face today is in fully understanding these rapidly evolving technologies while thinking through business implications. At the same time, creating a thoughtful modernization strategy for your legacy assets needs to balance investments in new technologies and capabilities with legacy retirement activities.Traditionally, business leaders were able to learn from competitors and make fairly informed technology and/or project requests of their technology counterparts. Today, technologists are struggling to fully understand the implications, benefits, and business value of new capabilities that are being introduced, let alone their partners in their business community.So why is this different than any other time in the last 30 years? Historically, the technology leader's role was clear--Evolving Role of the CIO--Enabling Business Execution through Great Architecture and Application of TechnologyBy Greg Tacchetti, CIO, State Auto InsuranceCIO INSIGHTS
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