Your IT Roadmap Needs a Top Five w/ Teresa Duran #457 (71:05)
You've Been Heard, Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Teresa Duran says CIOs win influence by trading five-year roadmaps for a focused top-five list tied to business goals.
In this podcast episode, Teresa Duran, CIO at Tree Top, Inc., explains why IT leaders should drop lengthy five-year roadmaps in favor of a short list of priorities tied directly to business goals, translating technical work into terms of growth, risk reduction, and efficiency.
She describes a 90-day framework for assessing strategy, organizational pain points, and talent gaps, and stresses assigning internal owners to vendor-built systems.
Duran also recounts leading a biotech transformation during COVID amid simultaneous software rollout and restructuring, and urges IT leaders to adopt a sales-and-marketing mindset.
She warns that focusing only on 'fix-its' and incidents keeps IT out of strategic conversations.