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Six Characteristics Of Strategic CIOs

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Six Characteristics Of Strategic CIOs

by Peter High, published on Forbes

12-08-2014

During the course of writing Implementing World Class IT Strategy (Wiley Press, September 2014), I had the great pleasure of speaking with and collaborating with a great number of the best strategic chief information officers in the United States. Each was a savvy technologist, but there were a variety of other skills that each possessed that seemed to be the key to enabling them to drive strategic change on behalf of the companies that they are a part of.

Summary of Six Characteristics:

  1. Consummate Networkers
  2. Great Listeners
  3. Empathetic
  4. Accountable
  5. Transparent
  6. Curious

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