Inspired leadership, customer-focused innovation, and a relentless business focus just about cover what CIOs need to bring to the table.

How many of the responsibilities listed below are among your top priorities?

1. Create new products, and help business units do so more rapidly
2. Create new revenue by innovative leveraging of existing applications and systems
3. Deepen the company's engagement with customers, both old and new
flow
4. Create and enforce global standards for processes and applications
5. Unlock new ways to find, deliver, and assess higher-value information
6. Reverse the 80/20 glut to make those first six possible
7. Create a massively transparent organization with all metrics focused on business value
8. Demonstrate forceful leadership and take responsible ownership
9. Don't align and don't whine