The CIO Role: Tech Trends and Investment Planning

Every Chief Information Officer (CIO) must think about enterprise technology trends and tech investment planning for innovation. To provide guidance for CIO strategy and the CIO role, quantitative futurist Amy Webb, Founder and CEO, of the Future Today Institute, explains her report, 2021 Tech Trends and what it means for CIOs. In this conversation you will learn about these topics: -- How can the 2021 Tech Trends report help Chief Information Officers (CIOs)? -- What critical technologies should Chief Information Officers pay attention to? -- How should CIOs navigate technology planning choices? -- Culture change and technology innovation -- Building a culture of innovation -- Amy Webb on cryptocurrencies -- Advice for Chief Information Officers Read the full transcript: https://www.cxotalk.com/episode/cio-role-tech-trends-investment-planning Subscribe now to the CXOTalk newsletter: https://www.cxotalk.com/subscribe Amy Webb pioneered a data-driven, technology-led foresight methodology that is now used with hundreds of organizations. She is a professor of strategic foresight at the NYU Stern School of Business. She is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Säid School of Business, a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center, a Fellow in the United States-Japan Leadership Program, and a Foresight Fellow in the U.S. Government Accountability Office Center for Strategic Foresight. She was elected a life member to the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. She is the author of several popular books, including The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, which was longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year award, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, and won the 2020 Gold Axiom Medal for the best book about business and technology.