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The C-suite has proliferated with technology-adjacent titles—Chief Digital Officers, Chief AI Officers, Chief Data Officers—each carving out territory that once belonged to IT leadership. Business leaders, armed with cloud subscriptions, AI tools, and more spending latitude than the CIO, increasingly bypass IT altogether.
The CIO role isn’t dying. It’s evolving. The best CIOs are enterprise orchestrators and strategic enablers who work across functional boundaries and business units.
And the IT executives who understand this evolution will become indispensable to their organizations.
