CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

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E. V. LUCAS The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS There are two words for everything.
E. V. LUCAS There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. LUCAS There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. LUCAS There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E V LUCAS Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
ANDREW V. MASON Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, din...
V. S. NAIPAUL Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the star...
C. V. RAMAN Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. PRITCHETT We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
JOHN V. POLITIS The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.
MAY V. SMITH I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. NAIPAUL I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...
MARIA V. SNYDER I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...
EUGENE V. DEBS There is always a double meaning in life...
NADEEM V ABDU How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch."
- Valek to Yelena
MARIA V. SNYDER Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just ...
JENNIFER V. CLANCY The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. PRITCHETT There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. LUCAS

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

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