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3 Lessons for every CIO launching a Digital Transformation journey

There’s no question about it. The role of today’s CIO in the digital world is changing faster than ever. As CIOs, we no longer just manage IT systems and services across an enterprise. Instead, we’re key contributors to shaping and driving a company’s digital transformation (or DX) strategy. And what an exciting role that is to take on! After all, digital inherently is a customer-centric value proposition, so we’re instrumental in ensuring that every level of an enterprise hinges around the customer. As the Global CIO of Schneider Electric, which is leading the digital transformation of energy management and automation across key markets , here are some of the concrete lessons at the forefront of this journey: Define the evolutionary leaps: digitization v. digital. Let’s start at square one. CIOs have been grappling with the terms “digitization” and “digital,” sometimes without pause to clarify any confusion or conflation of these very different concepts. Jeanne Ross, principal rese...