Dive Brief:
- A new survey from Gartner Inc. has found that CEOs are giving CIOs credit for driving digital innovation and change in their organizations, rather than seeing them only as managers of back-office technology.
- For the survey, CEOs were asked to distribute 100 points measuring leadership contribution among several C-suite roles. CIOs led with an average weighted score of 14.8.
- While CIOs are given the most credit, managing digital innovation is becoming more of a group game, as positions like chief marketing officer and chief digital officer are created.
Dive Insight:
Digital innovation has quickly gone from an interesting topic to discuss at HIMSS to an arena critical to the success of health care institutions. With Google Glass, remote monitoring of patients in their homes, wireless medical devices, health apps for monitoring both health and illness, just to name a few categories, the digital world has exploded, and health care organizations must figure out how to ride this wave. It's little wonder that smart organizations are hiring C-level executives to help manage the influx of new technologies and ideas.