Joining the dots: Now CIOs are enablers of a digital-first economy

Nitin Singhal, managing director, Digital Expertise, Adobe India

New analysis from Adobe has revealed that CIOs sit on the centre of nearly each main enterprise initiative in at present’s digital-first economic system, with companies tapping CIOs to digitally rework their organisations and assist form their return-to-work plans. With a purpose to perceive how the CIO’s position has developed, Adobe surveyed greater than 500 CIOs throughout the US (200), EMEA (150) and APAC (156) areas. It discovered that 98% of Indian CIOs (in comparison with 92% in US, 83% in EMEA and 94% in APAC) reported a rise of their duties.

“In only a yr, we went from a world with digital capabilities to a digital-first economic system, which positioned immense stress on many leaders, together with CIOs— lots of whom had been tasked with taking over a spread of recent duties,” says Nitin Singhal, managing director, Digital Expertise, Adobe India.

Round 96% of Indian CIOs have extra affect on management selections (in comparison with 83% in US, 85% in EMEA, 94% in APAC) whereas a good better quantity (98%) share that their organisational constructions have been reimagined to satisfy the altering wants introduced on by a transition to a digital-first economic system. Among the many many priorities CIOs should now handle, buyer expertise is ranked the very best by Indian CIOs (92%, in comparison with 38% in US, 67% in EMEA, 74% in APAC). In response to the survey, upto 50% of Indian CIOs singled out hybrid and public cloud because the almost definitely space for elevated funding in 2021.

Whereas buyer expertise is a high focus, the brand new “work from anyplace” surroundings has developed CIO’s priorities to be initially, staff after which prospects. Actually, 89% of CIOs see themselves as change brokers. Round 80% of Indian CIOs foresee their organisation focusing extra on productiveness than time measures (in comparison with 36% for US, 41% for EMEA, 57% for APAC), whereas a considerably excessive 71% are prepared to rent from anyplace within the nation and world (in comparison with 29% for US, 37% for EMEA, 44% for APAC). Moreover, 63% of Indian CIOs are able to implement a shorter work-week in comparison with 7% for the U.S., 27% in EMEA, and 41% throughout APAC.