I recently attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium for the second time. It is an annual one-day conference, held on the MIT campus. This is my second set of notes. I attended a session, Solving the CIO Paradox, led by led by Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief, CIO Magazine. Panel members include: Anne Marguiles, CIO Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Bill Brown, former CIO, Iron Mountain, James McGlennon, Liberty Mutual, and Tom Pyke, former CIO U.S. Department of Energy.
Maryfran said they were going to try to solve the CIO paradox as the role is always changing. They have to drive innovation, manage risk, and control costs and these goals can be at cross purposes. They often inherit costly legacy systems and then are told to go forth and innovate. There is a column in CIO Magazine called the CIO Paradox. The writer has now determined over a dozen paradoxes.
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