Category Archives: CIO

As we enter the new decade, Chris Gabriel, Director of Technology for Logicalis UK, looks at some of the biggest trends impacting businesses and the technology industry. Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have become a staple and responsible part of modern enterprises’ leadership. This year, as the capabilities of technology improve businesses’ efficiencies, CIOs’ decisions carry […]

Our first report from this year’s research, ‘The Changing Role of the CIO’, found that 43% of CIOs are expected to contribute to revenue growth, an increase of 22% on the previous year. As such, the evolving role of the CIO appears to have led to the adoption of new technologies and innovation. The 2019 […]

The first report in our four-part series from the 7th Logicalis Global CIO Survey, ‘The Changing Role of the CIO’, discovered that digital transformations are driving major changes for CIOs. As well as managing the IT infrastructure, they are now also expected to contribute to the business by supporting business initiatives and revenue growth. As […]

The sixth annual Logicalis Global CIO Survey (2018-2019) has identified long overdue and significant changes in the role of CIOs across Europe, the Americas, the Far East and Australia. Today, 94% of these IT leaders spend between 10% and 50% of their time on innovation and other strategic activities, and 38% spend at least a […]

Mark Rogers, CEO at Logicalis Group, digs into the Logicalis Global CIO Survey 2017-2018 to pick out some of the major topics arising from the survey of 890 CIOs in 23 countries. The big themes emerging from this years survey break CIO priorities down across three areas that could be mistaken for business as usual: […]

Oliver Descoeudres, from Logicalis Australia, describes the eight technologies that are enabling the modern workspace. Over the last decade, new ways of working have evolved as the consumerisation of technology has driven new expectations around flexible working and ‘everywhere access’ to data. The volume of work being done on digital platforms and mobile devices is growing […]

Oliver Descoeudres from Logicalis Australia, outlines three strategies available to leaders to make enterprise innovation a reality. These include acquired innovation, organic innovation, and partner-led innovation.  1. Acquired innovation For many large corporations, acquisitions are the primary means to enterprise innovation. Taking over another company fast-tracks growth by granting the buyer immediate access to skills, […]

Bob Bailkoski, Logicalis CFO, looks at what CFOs want from CIOs and how they can deliver. Digital technologies, such as big data, analytics, mobile and cloud, are now more closely connected to the financial health of organisations than ever before. It is vital, therefore, that IT and finance leaders get along. However, in many organisations a […]

As the results of the 2016 Logicalis CIO Survey are published, Joanne Nelson reveals how distributed IT, shadow IT departments and data security risks are the big issues for CIOs as they respond to challenges from digital disrupters. Businesses worldwide are responding to threats posed by digital disrupters like Über and Airbnb. The Logicalis Global CIO […]

As regular readers of CXO Unplugged will know, Logicalis has conducted an annual global survey of CIO pressures and priorities since 2013. These studies have been highly effective in uncovering the trends and opportunities that, when realised, can transform IT departments from backroom cost centres to services-led partners to internal line-of-business (LOB) customers. For example, in […]