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How IT leaders are driving new revenue

July 25, 2023
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How IT leaders are driving new revenue
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Given their unique perspective across the company, IT leaders are in prime position to identify and execute revenue-focused initiatives. CIOs and executive advisors share tips on supporting top-line growth.

Sandwich-focused restaurant franchise Subway has some 37,000 locations worldwide, each of which faces a unique combination of factors, such as local competition and customer demographics, that impact sales and profitability.

But Donagh Herlihy, the company’s chief digital and information officer, has a corporate-level solution to help each individual store determine “the sweet spot of pricing” to optimize profitability for that restaurant.

The initiative, heavy on data and analytics, will sift through myriad market factors affecting each store to land on the optimal prices — and, in the process, boost revenue for franchise owners and the company itself.

For Herlihy, identifying ways to drive revenue growth is all in a day’s work for modern tech execs. “Growth, profitability, productivity, and engagement are all now part of the CIO role that 20 years ago was all about internal operations,” says Herlihy, who has been an IT executive since landing his first CIO position in 2000.

To deliver on that growth objective, Herlihy has been focused on enabling digital sales channels and maximizing the use of the data derived from them.

Those are activities where the IT team can really prove their value, because they can only be done with the right technologies in place.

For example, Subway IT has helped drive digital sales up 500% from 2019 to 2023, thanks to its work on Subway’s own digital channels as well as with third-party food delivery services, Herlihy says. Much of that work started in response to the pandemic.

And Herlihy points to his team’s work on building a data environment that can be used to improve customer experience. For example, Subway gathers and analyzes data from its digital sales channels to identify possible friction in the customer experience — such as where customers abandon their online ordering — as well as opportunities for enhanced customer engagement, all of which helps ensure customers place their orders.

Herlihy is now scaling that data work: “We built all of that for North America, which is our biggest region, but now we can take those platforms to Europe, Asia, and Latin America and expand it around the world,” he says.

Meanwhile, Herlihy and his team are delivering more data-driven capabilities using machine learning and other data science technologies, collaborating with the business units to, for example, create personalized messaging and targeted marketing campaigns aimed at further boosting sales.

Revenue takes center stage

Herlihy’s vision for top IT leadership is not an anomaly.

A 2022 report from Info-Tech Research Group revealed that supporting revenue growth was No. 4 on the list of priorities cited by CIOs, after business process improvements, digital transformation, and modernization.

Other researchers agree, with Forrester Research declaring, “The tech leader’s role is evolving from a niche focus on technology strategy to a crucial business enabler with a seat at the table where pivotal decisions are made — and top-line revenue growth is generated.”

Granted, CIOs aren’t running sales teams or marketing campaigns, where there’s a more obvious link between their everyday activities and money-making purchases and inked contracts.

But veteran CIOs like Herlihy, executive consultants, and business researchers say today’s digital business environment has created a growing number of opportunities for CIOs and their teams to engage in work that does indeed directly and concretely support revenue growth.

State of the CIO 2023: CIOs tasked with creating revenue-generating initiatives

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“The business operations leaders, those line leaders if you will, are responsible for going to market. But the CIO is responsible for enabling that, efficiently and rapidly, so those opportunities aren’t missed, and that’s where the CIO’s focus should be,” says Marc Tanowitz, managing partner for advisory and transformation at digital service firm West Monroe.https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/slide24_State-of-the-CIO-Research-2023_v8.0.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024

Growth-focused activities

According to CIO.com’s State of the CIO Survey, 68% of CIOs say creating new revenue-generating initiatives is now part of their job. To that end, the survey identified the top 10 activities CIOs are undertaking to help drive more revenue to their business as:

Automating business and/or IT processes (47%)

Creating new products/services (40%)

Making our data more available (34%)

Developing/enhancing the customer journey (31%)

Reporting on the value that IT provides (30%)

Interacting directly with customers (29%)

Creating teams focused on innovation (26%)

Creating business case scenarios with defined costs and benefits (23%)

Implementing a product-based approach (21%)

Weekly/monthly meetings with executive leadership (21%)

Of note, too, is No. 12: Cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset, with 18% listing that as one of their priorities.

CIOs in recent years have created the bandwidth they need to focus on revenue and growth, by offloading application and infrastructure management to software-as-a-service and cloud vendors, says Shankar Narayaran, president and global head of retail, CPG, travel, and hospitality at Tata Consultancy Services.

At the same time, he says CIOs who moved to the cloud and deployed capabilities such as low-code platforms, which enable business unit workers to create software features, created the technology foundation necessary for CIOs to deploy the more advanced tech tools and niche functions that directly support revenue-generating processes.

CIOs who are driving new revenue are:

Delivering technologies designed to meet specific business outcomes. For example, Narayaran has seen CIOs focus their teams on creating applications designed not merely on high availability and reliability but on hitting very specific business goals — such as enabling on-time deliveries to its customers.

Unlocking data’s potential. Narayaran says he has also seen CIOs make big plays with their data programs, investing in the technology infrastructure needed to bring together and analyze data sets to create new services or products and drive business objectives such as improved customer retention and customer stickiness.

Co-creating with their business unit colleagues. Notably, Narayaran says CIOs are approaching their business unit colleagues with such proposals. “CIOs [are saying], ‘Here’s an opportunity. We have this data, and we can make this data do this for you,’ and they then bring that to life. And if they say, ‘This is what we have and this is what we can do,’ then the business, too, can come up with new ideas.”

Embedding themselves in the business. Herlihy draws on the principle of “genchi genbutsu,” or “go and see for yourself” in Japanese. In other words, walk in your own customer’s shoes. Herlihy worked in a Subway shop before taking his seat in the CIO office, and he asks his team to gain such experience, too. He leaned into the principle in 2022, when he traveled to the United Kingdom and several European countries to explore whether deploying self-order kiosks would work in that market; the trip and a subsequent successful pilot demonstrated that enabling such high-tech kiosks would indeed help with sales. (He shares: “Guests will upsell themselves when they’re in front of a well-presented display of our products.”)

Seek out opportunities. “IT should always be viewed as more than ‘order-takers’ because we are a critical part of the revenue generation lifecycle,” says author and global technology leader Rhonda Vetere, who previously worked as both a CIO and a chief information and technology officer. Vetere says CIOs should identify opportunities where they can work with other functional leaders on revenue-focused initiatives. She cites as examples her work on redesigning a consumer brand website to incorporate a loyalty program and clicks-to-purchase — moves that drove sales, and thus, revenue growth — as well as bringing design thinking to make online banking more efficient for the banks’ customers. She adds: “Always go back to the company strategy and goals — the top business priorities should correlate with the activities of IT and areas of focus.”

Ted Schadler, a vice president and principal analyst with Forrester, whose work has focused on tech’s new role in growth, says “empowered CIOs” enable growth by flawlessly scaling and securing customer solutions, create growth by collaboratively building products that open new markets, and amplify growth by elevating insights, automation, and algorithms to optimize everything.

State of the CIO 2023: Driving revenue through process automation

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More work to do

How much of a CIO’s time is spent on growth-focused activities varies by industry and by company, Schadler says.

But CIOs are well positioned to collaborate on growth initiatives because, unlike most other enterprise roles, they see across the enterprise and “can see patterns that lie outside of any single product,” Schadler says. He recounts how the CIO at a medical device company worked across four business units building an IoT platform to power the various products all four were seeking, work the CIO was able to unify because of the visibility he had.

Schadler says not all CIOs are empowered to do that work.

“They’ve been told they can’t, so they don’t,” he says, adding that he believes CIOs have the skills, knowledge, and practices — such as agile development — to successfully move into growth activities.

“But we hear stories that once they do, the engine just cranks up,” he adds.

In fact, Schadler says a growing number of CIOs are indeed venturing into such work; however, they remain part of a small percentage whose role is tied in with revenue. When Forrester asked CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs whether they were personally familiar with revenue growth as a business objective, only 18% of CIOs agreed (compared to 28% of CTOs and 35% of CEOs).

Tanowitz says he, too, sees some CIOs struggle to take on more revenue-generating activities. Yet, like Schadler, he also sees more CIOs growing into that work.

The CIOs who are moving into that space are developing a product-centric mindset and IT culture. They’re embracing agile and DevSecOps to enable their companies to quickly address market needs, “which does drive revenue,” Tanowitz says. And they’re building strong data, analytics, and intelligence programs to support the creation of new products and services.

“I think it’s on the CIO to lay out a vision and engage the organization on the value the CIO can bring,” Tanowitz adds.

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