CIO Responsibility for IT Sourcing and Procurement

This IDC Perspective examines research data suggesting that CIOs are taking up a stronger role in IT sourcing and procurement. "CIOs must be proactive with sourcing and procuring IT products and services. CIOs cannot abdicate that responsibility to the enterprise procurement department and the chief procurement officer. With emerging AI capabilities, IT can be very complicated and very risky with ongoing cybersecurity attacks. The CIO understands all of this as well as today's IT architecture requirements so that future technical debt is controlled," says Dr. Ron Babin, adjunct research advisor, IT Executive Programs (IEP) at IDC.