Business tech vanguard leader roles worldwide 2020

Globally, 29 percent of respondents from a survey in 2020 from tech vanguard organizations had a visionary role in developing their organization's business strategy. This means they acted as visionary guides to leveraging technologies. In baseline organizations, the majority of CIOs had the role of adviser, meaning they represented tech function and support the business strategy.

Technology vanguard leadership roles for developing business strategy worldwide in 2020, by role

Characteristic	Tech vanguard	Baseline organization
Visionary	29%	14%
Partner	28%	21%
Adviser	24%	39%
Delivery leader	16%	18%

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Release date

September 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Number of respondents

1,311*

Special properties

Technology leaders and business leaders

Supplementary notes

*Distribution of respondents: 37% Americas, 37 Europe, 14% Middle East and Africa, 11% APAC.

Roles of survey participants across 22 sectors: global/enterprise CIO, division/business unit/region/country CIO, senior technology decision-maker, chief technology officer, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, business unit leader, executive/management committee, board of directors, chief operating officer, other.

11.6% of survey respondents and interview participants represent organizations identified as vanguards. Vanguard organizations are ahead of baseline organizations in three dimensions: technology function maturity, vision and strategy, market leadership.

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