Digitisation makes CIOs preferred IT talent

The new job of the CIO is to build the required bench strength to scale the enterprise's digital business

With rising digitisation across organisations, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is increasingly becoming the most sought-after role in the tech community over the last three years, say HR companies.
 
CIOs are responsible for helping organisations formulate strategies to aggregate, store, secure data as also forming monetisation and confidentiality policies on data.
 
“The increasing importance of artificial intelligence, data analytics and cybersecurity within IT has started having an impact on revenues. Although, the IT job market has been stressed lately and the CIO’s role particularly has seen immense growth,” said Ankit Agarwala, Director Michael Page India, an HR firm