Teaching IT executives the right leadership skills

Today's Chief Information Officers need to be technology savvy. As IT becomes a more integral part of business operations and strategies, CIOs must find game-changing innovations and process improvements that make a real impact on the bottom line.

Business executives need their CIOs to be real partners - speaking the language of the business and donning their strategist caps - not just commodity managers.

Those IT leaders who fail to break out of the order-taker, utility manager mold will, simply put, be looking for a new job.