“There are three important business imperatives in information management, and most CIOs only address one of them: managing the cost and operational efficiency of IT infrastructure.

The other two imperatives — creating new value from information and managing data risk — are increasingly being taken on by two emerging roles: chief digital officer and chief data officer, says Debra Logan, a VP and analyst at Gartner.

The new roles, which were discussed at October’s Gartner Symposium, are emerging because the current generation of CIOs have mostly focused on efficiency, says Logan. What’s more, the very structure of reporting to the CFO or COO almost guarantees a cost-focused, rather than innovation-focused, approach.”

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