CIOs often struggle with organizational alignment on priorities, not due to a lack of strategy, but because they fail to enforce necessary trade-offs. True alignment is achieved not through consensus, but by clearly defining what initiatives will be delayed or not pursued at all. Each functional department, such as finance or sales, interprets priorities through its own lens, leading to a fragmented view of value that a CIO must bridge by translating technology initiatives into concrete business outcomes. AI
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