“Too many meanings, and it’s seen as the hammer that can solve everything,” he said.“I think ‘innovation’ needs to go away in the context of what we use these days because everything that we do has innovation built into that,” said Anil Bhatt, CIO atAre we not men?
Citigroup Inc. CIO of its Global Consumer Bank Shadman Zafar requests that everyone deprogram from language best suited to machines, like “sync up.”Another one he would not miss is “actionable insights.” “Any other kind would be useless so we don’t need to waste time on those other insights, and we can drop the ‘actionable’ adjective!” he said.CIO Brian Rice ponders the meaning of “digital transformation.”
“We’ve struggled with that one ourselves, like, what does ‘digital’ mean? What does ‘transformation’ mean? What does ‘digital transformation’ mean? So I think trying to find a better way to describe that would benefit us all.”The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team.
I mean they’re catchy
If your CIO thinks “innovation” has to go, it’s likely your CIO is the one who has to go.