Today’s CIO need to achieve many things to be relevant to their business counterparts. At the top of this list should be establishing business transparency. The question is how do they achieve it? And what things are needed to put transparency in place? These are the questions that I posed recently to the #CIOChat. Their answers should be relevant to all CIOs and key members of their management teams.
Transparency matters
CIOs believe transparency matters. They say that transparency is about trust—without transparency you do not have trust. Simply put, you go nowhere when your customers and employees do not trust you. In terms of achieving business relevance, CIOs believe that transparency provides the foundation for translating strategy into execution. With it, CIOs believe there can be common understanding, vision, and even purpose. Transparency for these reasons can move the business forward. CIOs say as well that monitoring and measuring progress along the journey matters. In sum, CIOs believe that transparency is critical to creating a healthy company culture and to ensuring that other business leaders are on the same page and can make better decisions.
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Source: IT Strategy