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From the Editor's Desk What CIOs need from their CEOs and boards to make IT digital ready | McKinsey As any CIO or tech leader can tell you, transforming IT and modernizing a business's technology estate is a significant challenge. Making matters worse, many CEOs and board members still cast a jaundiced eye on large tech projects, which have traditionally run over budget and delivered below expectations. Unfortunately, this mindset undermines the support CIOs need to successfully drive their tech transformations. To understand how CEOs and board members can better support their tech leaders, we spoke with about 120 senior tech leaders and 30 senior business executives over the past 18 months. These detailed interviews provided a range of insights, but these five, in particular, highlight the best measures CEOs and boards can take to provide CIOs with the support they need: Continued here TradeBriefs: Newsletters for Decision-Makers! 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