Free to Innovate: The CIO Who Outsources

Computing’s annual Exceptional CIO report draws out key trends as observed by leading CIOs up and down the country. From a vendor and service provider’s point of view, we’re always interested in hearing how these individuals’ views are similar to or differ from the views expressed by our customers.

This year’s report is a must-read for decision makers in IT, asking questions such as ‘What is the role of the CIO?’ and ‘What are the key approaches for vendor relationships?’ Further to the insights we gathered from our customers in our survey (see our previous post here), this report was of particular interest to us as it echoed some of the views expressed by our customers, and highlighted a few more.

We’d like to respond to some of these points and also offer some of our thoughts on outsourced IT – a topic which many in IT wish to avoid, but which are naturally keen to talk about!