“In tech, every tool, software, or system eventually becomes outdated,” he adds. “You can be confident in your infrastructure today, but if you’re not constantly reassessing, it’ll catch up with you. Any tech at any given time is just one step away from obsolescence.”
Keeping pace with the business
CIOs need to continually assess their IT systems to ensure they’re still meeting the organization’s needs, he says. “We also need to understand where business is heading and update our architecture and tech stack based on future business needs,” Ivashin adds. “Some systems become useless as business needs change, so instead of maintaining them, we retire them.”
In some cases, it’s the IT employees, not the CEO, pushing for shiny, new IT tools, he says. And in some cases, the CIO may want to allow IT employees to experiment with new technologies to keep them engaged and retain their services, he adds.
