May - 20198GOVERNMENT CIO OUTLOOKeeping up continues to be a challenge, prioritizing what you scan, what you follow-up on and what you can fit in squeezes the clock each day. Sound familiar? Good, then you are a normal CIO with many plates spinning at the same time. Reports on "Skills for Digital Transformation," 5G, security, change management the list is inexhaustible. Sometimes you stare at the screen and think, "I cannot consume everything I need to know." Inevitably there is a five-stage model that will help you as a CIO to improve, deploy or fix any issue that comes your way. I wonder who has the time to research, ponder and develop such models. I feel guilty spending time writing this short article when I should be defending our pricing model or making sure the 30 plus projects due before year-end are on track. Perhaps just writing about the challenges provides some form of therapy, I'm not really sure. As CIO's we are supposed to have all the answers. Ours is a profession that, it seems, anyone can do given the right circumstances (placing a person in charge of IT that has no experience in the field). This is a real pet peeve of mine, if that is true, make me the CFO, I have a checkbook at home. But I digress, IT today is an exceptionally complex field and one that continues to change, challenge and consume. IBM and Risk.net conducted a survey, and more than 75 percent of survey respondents see machine learning as a driver for decision making and analytics success. Perhaps this will provide the relief I need for decision-making. Most of you reading this, believe at this point that I have gone over the edge and need a rest. That could be true, but we are all in this, it is the same for every CIO. You say, don't lump us all together, I have it together, I am confident, intelligent, successful, moving the business forward. Well, we are all like that, but the facts remain, there is more and more to review, contemplate, learn, get frustrated about, decide and act upon than in the history of this profession and I do not see it slowing down anytime soon do you? Just segmenting valuable data from marketing content is a skill-set in and of itself. The constant push from vendors to move to platforms that they tell you will save money and resources then show you colorful charts describing the high percentages of (for example) Cloud migration. Is that true? Is everyone else moving to the Cloud because everything they read says it is the best approach? I would like to think that every CIO reviews the ROI or cost/benefit, views the total cost of ownership of a Cloud migration to understand the overall costs fully. I am also sure that in our haste to move Michael Mayta, CIO, City of Wichita KansasByCloud, AI, CEX, SEIM, Digital Transformation, Smart Cities, My Brain is About to Explode!KMichael MaytaIN MYOPINION
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