Today, successful IT teams are the ones with a deep knowledge of how to take technical expertise and drive the business forward.
Think of Yourself as an Analyst, Not a Technologist
Simply put, most IT organizations (and CIOs) shouldn't be creating or even managing technologies. They should be evaluating them. Creating your own applications — or even maintaining your own data centers — can take up inordinate amounts of time and energy. Leveraging cloud services and third-party solutions allows IT groups to leverage their time and budgets better. To succeed, CIOs need to shift their mental frame of reference: their job is more to be an in-house analyst than the go-to-guy when things go wrong.