As many businesses in the Middle East are building businesses that target not just regional but global growth, technology is playing a larger role than ever in advancing these organizational aspirations. According to a latest forecast by in March of this year, Middle East IT spending is projected to total $211 billion in 2014, an 8 percent increase from 2013. In this scenario, the role of the CIO has become increasingly important. But this role has changed fundamentally over the past decade. In an era of cloud computing, big data and increasing dominance of mobile devices, the way an organization interacts with IT is now very different.
According to Gartner, the last ten years has seen IT change from the department that takes care of technology to support the business, to an era where the CIO is increasingly expected to play a key role in achieving competitive advantage. The research company states, “In the past, the CIO's role was primarily to run the IT organisation. In the future, it will be to ensure that the enterprise, as a whole, achieves strategic value from the use of technology and information. Read More
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