As the new year arrives, CIOs are facing a challenging to-do list as they strive to maximize IT productivity and efficiency in increasingly unpredictable times.

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. 'As the economic pendulum shifts to cost control, CIOs will have to find ways to continue achieving the same results but with less margin for error,' he notes. 'How well teams execute will be key.'

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