In the last 10 years, the world of IT has changed dramatically with the introduction of cloud, mobile and social technologies. And by 2015, the share of IT projects run primarily or exclusively by IT will drop from 55 to 47 percent. In our SlideShare deck on 10 Lessons You Can Learn from the Top CIOs and CTOs on the Future of IT, we’ve rounded up tips and lessons from influencers in this space including Rob Carter, Christina Scott, Andrew Wilson and others. Get more on web development, design and strategy on our blog: http://blog.thelevel.com.

1. Lessons You Can Learn
from the
Top CIOs and CTOs
on the Future of IT
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2. By 2015, the share of IT projects run
primarily or exclusively by IT will drop
from 55% (2009) to 47%.

3. ROB CARTER, CIO OF FEDEX
Forbes: FedEx's Rob Carter On What It Takes To Be A Board-Level CIO
#1#1
The most exciting things
going on in the world have
to do with that exact
phenomenon. Being able to
understand patterns,
and make decisions
quickly to seize
opportunities as quickly
as possible – that is a
source of tremendous
value for our company.

4. Forbes: FedEx's Rob Carter On What It Takes To Be A Board-Level CIO
ROB CARTER CONTINUES...
That is what makes a good director as
well—someone who can speak the
language of the business as well as
translate the dialogue of the
technology in ways that keep it relevant
and do not alienate people.
#2#2

5. We get the technology, we don't mind
staying up late to figure out where it's
going to go. Understanding when, where
and why it resonates with different
people, that's a different thing, and that's a
tremendous challenge.
SCOTT MORRISON
CTO OF LAYER 7
TECHNOLOGIES
#3#3
ComputerWorld: 10 Questions for Layer 7 Technologies CTO Scott Morrison

6. BILL BRIGGS,
CTO OF
DELOITTE CONSULTING#4#4
The idea is to see if there’s a way
to harness these issues to
inspire disruption, so you’re not
on the wrong end of it. It’s to make
sure you’re not surprised and
caught unaware, though your
strategy might simply be to say, “let’
s wait and see.”
Forbes: CIOs on the Eve of Distruption

7. MIKE D. KAIL, VP OF IT AT NETFLIX
My feeling is that IT should have always
been both engineering/dev and data
focused, and I believe the industry shift
over time will make that a stricter
requirement for every company. Everyone
doesn’t need to be a full-stack developer,
but having the skills to glue together
services via APIs will be necessary.
#5#5
Amplify Partners: Netflix VP of IT on the Future of Infrastructure

8. CIO Insider: Financial Times CIO Christina Scott, the key quotes
CHRISTINA SCOTT, CIO OF
FINANCIAL TIMES
The excitement is really in driving the business
and technology forwards through driving
customer relationships via social
or mobile. Using our data to understand
what the reader wants and what is most
relevant to them. The exciting part is the
technology our users use. That is the bit a lot
of CIOs don’t have.
#6#6

9. I think the next wave will be focused more on
services that can increasingly be
automated or boiled down to algorithms,
for instance. So analytical industries, like
financial analysis and health care - health care
will probably be slow because it's slow to
adopt new technology in general—that are
basically boiled down to the analysis of
information, I believe will go through
considerable disruption as more and more of
their processes can be automated,
distilled into algorithms and delivered over
the Net.
NICHOLAS G. CARR, AUTHOR
CIOZone: Nicholas Carr On The Future Role Of The CIO
#7#7

10. Information Age: CIO Spotlight: Evolution in Sight
ROBB WEBB
FORMER CTO OF HILTON WORLDWIDE
Increasingly, the CIO is moving from
this trusted business partner
to a true business innovator
because they’re building out the next
set of products and services, and
those are delivered by software.
#8

11. ANDREW WILSON, CTO OF ACCENTURE
CIO.com:CTOs Must Become Technology Consultants
A good consultant comes at it from
an industry and client perspective
and with an outcome rather than
with tools and technology. I must not
just be a technologist. I must be an
articulate, collegiate business
operator who also owns the
technology responsibilities that
enable the firm.
#9#9

12. Andi Karaboutis
CIO OF DELL
Search CIO: How Dell CIO turned Dell IT from Order Takers to Business Partners
My team now understands they own
understanding that business strategy; it's not
bringing in their business partner to tell us
about it. That's where you get to that mindset
of: 'I'm not partnering with the business; I'm not
just supporting the business; I am part of
this business, by golly, and I have to
understand it as well as those people sitting in
P&L [profit and loss departments].
#10#10

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