Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 16 | Page 23

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TRENDING CIOS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CULTURE CHANGE BY 2021 The relationship between an organisation’s IT department can offer benefits to a company by cooperating effectively with HR employees. The IT department can determine the desired culture of a company as a result of IT decisions, supporting the function of the HR team. I President at Gartner. “A partnership with the CHRO is the perfect way to align technology selections and design processes to shape the desired work behaviours.” “A lot of CIOs have realised that culture can be an accelerator of Digital Transformation and that they have the means to reinforce a desired culture through their technology choices,” said Elise Olding, Research Vice The mission and values of an organisation usually fall into the remit of HR. The partnership between IT and HR can shed light on how IT can make technology and process design decisions that foster the intention of the desired organisational culture. Enterprise architecture can adopt principles that align to the cultural traits and when business analysts n an era of continuous change, a proactive and adaptive culture is a critical asset and CIOs will play a key role in establishing the right mindsets and practices. Gartner predicts that by 2021, CIOs will be as responsible for culture change as Chief HR Officers (CHROs). www.intelligentcio.com “ THE IT DEPARTMENT MUST PARTNER WITH HR TO SET UP PROGRAMMES FOR MONITORING, MEASURING AND ENHANCING INCLUSION. INTELLIGENTCIO 23