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CIOs must master critical business concepts to fulfill their new mandate of being business partners with their leadership peers. Here are the latest business terms and notions impacting IT.CIOs have heard for years that they can no longer be only technology leaders. They must be business executives, too. CEOs say as much. CIO.com’s 2025 State of the CIO survey found that CEOs expect their top IT execs to help the organization achieve revenue growth objectives, identify data-driven business opportunities, reduce spending, enable new plans for customer acquisition and retention, among other objectives. If CIOs want to deliver on those CEO expectations, they must not only speak the language of business (as they’re often advised to do) but also understand business fundamentals — those key ideas and theories that have become the bedrock lessons of MBA programs and...