ABSTRACT
Bask Iyer, CIO of VMware, once told me about the “CEO missingout syndrome.” It goes like this:
Most CEOs really like their CIOs. “My CIO is great,” they say. “She has kept costs down, has secured our enterprise, and runs a highly available infrastructure. In fact, she has done everything I have asked her to do since I hired her five years ago. However, I feel like I’m missing out. What with all of that innovation coming out of Silicon Valley,” these CEOs worry, “I must be missing out on some really cool digital disrupter that my competitors have surely discovered.”1
