9 Top CIO Trends and Priorities for What’s Left of 2022 Source George Lawton 1 Adopting a single technology vision I expect more CIOs to establish a single technology vision as consolidating these tec.
9 Top CIO Trends and Priorities for What’s Left of 2022 Source: George Lawton Adopting a single technology vision I expect more CIOs to establish a single technology vision as consolidating these tech stacks can greatly improve business performance 2 Preparing for next-gen technology services CIOs are also laying the groundwork to adopt a variety of promising technologies in different states of maturity They include next-generation analytics, IoT, metaverse and Web 3.0 3 Practicing fiscal prudence At the same time, the uncertain economic climate will spur CIOs to prioritize cost management initiatives in 2022, including cloud spend analysis and ROI analysis 4 Using the cloud for core business applications CIOs will encourage increased adoption of the cloud for the core business applications of CRM/SCM/ERP/HRMS and other line-of-business applications At the same time, applications focused on new technology and digital transformation, such as IoT, will increasingly go cloud native, in tandem with a cloud-first mentality for business analytics 5 Adopting cloud to support a distributed workforce The growth in the number of people working from home and in distributed scenarios is also pushing CIOs to invest more in cloud infrastructure to support this dispersed workforce 6 Building a digital collaboration culture A top priority for CIOs in 2022 is digital collaboration culture, or identifying the tools and systems their organizations need to strengthen remote and hybrid employee collaboration long term, despite growing economic uncertainty and tightening budgets, Developing a unified data management architecture CIOs also need to develop a cohesive data management architecture A big driver is the increasing assortment of SaaS, PaaS and Cloud platforms as enterprises upgrade their technology stack and data platforms 8 Exploring new data analytics CIOs also need to explore how new data analytics technologies can provide a faster and more accurate picture of the organization 9 Meeting the challenge of the ever-expanding role of the CIO Executives are starting to realize that the right tech is a key part of defining a business strategy and, in turn, has the potential to drive new business models CIOs are now working with their C-suite colleagues to execute these new business strategies and make critical decisions about their tech investments