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Erich Gerber, SVP EMEA & APJ at TIBCO
Avoiding an e
crisis, CIOs ne
reinvent them
As the CIO role transforms,
the CIO has no option but to
adapt within their role and
conform to their new-found
requirements. Erich Gerber,
SVP EMEA & APJ at TIBCO,
identifies some of the traits
needed by this decade’s
information chiefs.
The CIO role
massively o
now it’s se
what is close to an
the role. A new wa
digital officers are
transformation pro
adapt or risk being
They must deepen
knowledge of Dev
other hot areas, bu
that they still have
This is an awkward
In the 1970s, the
everyone needed
and only an elite f
But with packaged
faded and in the c
that CIO stands fo
danger of changin
The fact is that the
of falling between
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