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In an era of unprecedented globalization, there is extraordinary
pressure for business innovation and the associated creation of new,
exciting products and services. To meet these challenges,
enterprises have grown larger and more complex, drawing upon
diverse, multi-generational corporate knowledge and business
intelligence. Now more than ever business leaders require effective
and cost efficient information technology (IT) to manage their
sprawling domains.
For the organization’s Chief Information
Officer, the current environment calls for a creative vision that
draws upon the latest breakthroughs in IT and pragmatic change
management capability. Technology and process advances are
important, but must be architected within established frameworks
that assure the cost effective and timely deployment of practical
business solutions.
To traverse some treacherous shoals, today’s CIO must remain
aligned with line-of-business colleagues while harnessing the
potential of innovative tools and new approaches emerging in the
market place. Further, this has to occur in the context of
always-tight IT budgets and constrained delivery timelines. Balance
is needed on the call for bread-and-butter technology maintenance
resources versus the need for new investments more in line with
firm’s global vision and mission.
The 2008 MIT CIO
Symposium will focus on the core value propositions associated with
global delivery models, emerging capabilities, and best practices in
selection, design and deployment of IT. This forum is an opportunity
look beyond the day-to-day issues to focus on a spectrum of
solutions that are either here already or just over the horizon
– ranging from virtualization, Web 2.0 to the
“greening” of the data center.
