2,000 days: the CIO's world in 2025
What the role of the CIO will look like in five years time


Over the next few years, chief information officers (CIOs) will preside over a maelstrom of change that will fundamentally alter the way their companies do business in the future.
By 2025, successful CIOs will play a much more strategic role than they do today, transforming business models and gaining a host of new responsibilities.
Based on key findings from a Forbes insight survey of more than 650 CIOs, this report explores how the world for CIOs is rapidly changing, and what their role will look like in 2025.
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