INTERVIEW

Jordan makes a clear distinction between disruptive technology , which is just another tool at the end of the day , and the process of disrupting a business through technology . It ’ s only in the latter context that he would like to be considered as one of the more disruptive CIOs in the IT industry . “ What I ’ d call disruption is challenging the business to be something different by deploying technology . The scale of the change I have been driving for some time now is among the boldest in the telecoms industry . Disruption is a dangerous game . The successes are remembered but there are hundreds that failed and got fired . My personal contribution as a leader in disruption tends to be in sense making , storytelling and challenging inertia .” The advice that other CIOs would be wise to listen to from the European CIO of 2016 would be to start with the need to understand the business at least as well as the others round the table . “ IT is the only function that touches all parts of the business . CIOs who just run IT and understand technology are not remotely transformational given the challenge we have all got . I ’ d

24 May 2017