The enterprise of the future

Last May, IBM unveiled results from its 2008 Global CEO survey where they asked more than 1,000 CEOs around the world how their organizations were addressing new and changing customers, global integration, and business model innovation. Today, a CIO has power unimaginable only 10 years ago. In the past, success was based on technical expertise. But today, CIOs don't just keep the organization running, they are also a catalyst of change -- and in charge of moving their organizations forward. The vision for the future as shaped by our CEO survey that unveiled the "Enterprise of the Future" will be: hungry for change, innovative beyond customer imagination, globally integrated, disruptive by nature, and, in terms of social responsibility, not just generous, but genuine in all of its actions and decisions.