CEOs' Top Priorities for IT Leaders Today
CIO, Monday, May 13th, 2024
Chief executives are displaying a deeper understanding of technology's impact on achieving organizational objectives - and they are shifting their directives for IT leaders to ensure that impact is a success.
Lawrence Bilker can easily articulate the business values that his IT initiatives should deliver: better experiences for both employees and customers, more insights from data to enable smarter decision-making, and more intelligence for improved operations.
Overall, IT projects are meant to create a leaner, more profitable company, says Bilker, CIO of manufacturer Lift Solutions Holding.
To do that, Bilker and his IT team are bringing its disparate data sets together in a data lakehouse. That move, in turn, boosts the company's automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence goals by delivering the high-quality data that those technologies crave - thereby improving both decision-making capabilities and user experiences.