Mapping Digitization’s Impact on Enterprises. And on CIOs.

Andrew McAfee, a cofounder of MIT’s Initiative on the​ Digital Economy and Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management, who studies how information technology changes enterprises, society and the economy, delves into the concepts behind his latest New York Times bestseller ‘The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies’.

He paints a vivid picture of what the future holds for CIOs. One critical change will be that the traditionally labor-intensive job of keeping technology up and running will become heavily automated. CIOs will have to evolve to the new role of a technology Sherpa, who guides and navigates enterprises on how technology is advancing, how it could change the company, how it could change competition and the industry.

For CIOs a critical change will be the traditionally labor-intensive job of keeping technology up and running will becoming heavily automated. CIOs will have to evolve to the new role of a technology Sherpa, who guides and navigates enterprises on how technology is advancing, how it could change the company, how it could change competition and the industry.