IDG Contributor Network: Is the business-IT gap intentional?

The 2017 State of the CIO report by CIO.com does an excellent job in reminding us of the eternal gap between the business and IT: While CIOs think of IT as a strategic business partner, business executives think of IT as an important, yet supporting, function. Is this a problem?Not necessarily. Functional specialization is an intended feature of the industrial era operating models designed for efficiency through scale; and the multi-decade-old business-IT gap is a textbook style illustration of