CIO Time Study

CIOs face various time management challenges, including juggling multiple responsibilities, and interruptions and finding a balance between internal and external stakeholder interactions.
CIOs face challenges prioritizing and splitting their time across different activities throughout the week.
CIOs struggle to strike a balance between maintaining stability and embracing disruptive innovation.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Embrace data-driven insights to improve your overall time management skills. Providing more value to the business starts with little practices like:

Spending time with the right stakeholders and focusing on the right priorities.
Evaluating which meetings are important and productive.
Benchmarking yourself against your peers in the industry so you constantly learn from them and improve yourself.

By delving into time management approaches, successes, and setbacks, you can strategically shape your time allocation to steer IT operations and performance more effectively.

Impact and Result

Prioritize stakeholder interactions and engagements based on strategic importance and business impact.
Implement more automation toward day-to-day related tasks to allocate time toward reactive and proactive tasks.
Allocate time for exploring emerging technologies and trends and engaging with external IT leaders to drive positive change and enhance IT satisfaction within the organization.

CIO Time Study Research & Tools

1. CIO Time Study Report 2023 – Mastering the Clock: A Deep Dive Into CIO Time Allocation

This storyboard portrays how CIOs allocate their time across different stakeholder groups, day-to-day activities, processes, and projects.

CIO Time Study Report 2023

Mastering the clock: A deep dive into CIO time allocation.

1. Firmographics

Region
Organization size
Industry
Work experience

Firmographics

The majority of CIO responses came from North America. Contributors represent regions from around the world.

Map of CIO Responses by region. America makes up 52% of responses, Canada makes up 13%, Australia makes up 19% and New Zealand makes up 6%.

Firmographics

The majority of CIO responses came from North America. Contributors represent regions from around the world.

More than 68% of the respondents are from organizations with above $100 million annual revenue.

Graph showing percentage of respondents who make over a certain annual revenue.

A range of industries are represented, with 38% of respondents in government and education sectors.

Industries represented are varied. Highest percentage is in Government, Education, Financial and Healthcare

Firmographics

The majority of CIO responses came from North America. Contributors represent regions from around the world.

86% of the CIOs have more than 10 years of technical experience before becoming a CIO and almost three-fourths of them hold the position for up to 15 years.

Bar Graph that shows Years of technical experience prior to becoming a CIO. A line graph that shows Number of Years being a CIO.

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