Forrester: - Making Leaders Successful Every Day

2008 will see the firming up of several trends that will shape the CIO role in the future, the foremost being the bifurcation of the role itself. Some CIOs will capitalize on their visibility across organizational silos along with their understanding of technology's potential to grow into the role of business change agent, but most will remain focused on running the business of IT. In 2008, change agent CIOs will gain more business presence while general manager CIOs continue to make improvements to IT reliability, consistency, and cost.