As the person with the CIO job, it’s your responsibility to make sure  that the IT department is successful. In order to do that, you need to  be able to lead the department in the right direction in order to  realize the importance of information technology. 

What this means is  that you have to plan, organize and launch new strategies and  initiatives. Changes in business trends, security issues and increasing  government oversight of many IT activities, combined with a seemingly  never-ending series of disruptive technologies, make it essential to be thinking about tactics and goals all the time. 

How should a CIO go about doing this?