Recent research from Burson-Marsteller makes it clear that, in the developed world, still only a tiny minority of companies (less than 10%) have their CIO on the board while, in the developing world, companies are about ten times more likely to have done this.
That sounds like ‘sayonara’ to companies in the developed world – if we can’t get our heads around the simple notion that we have to harness IT (the letters, remember, stand for ‘information technology’) to help us compete in the information economy, then we’d better start learning some foreign languages and get our homes on the market while they still have some value in them…
