If you read Deloitte's 2012 Global Insurance Outlook (or read my interview with Deloitte's Sam Friedman), you had to be struck by the use of the word "revolutionary," which Friedman, co-author of the outlook, used to describe CIOs.
He wrote: "As tech transforms insurer operations, chief information officers are becoming more than just stewards of systems and processes. As high-level strategists, CIOs will perhaps become 'revolutionaries' within their companies as they are increasingly called upon to suggest how insurers can break out of traditional ways of thinking and operating."
The second sentence in that last paragraph has to be inspiring for anyone interested in a leadership position in insurance IT. Certainly many people within an insurance office see themselves as high-level strategists, but most of them are saddled with traditional ways of thinking and operating.
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