This article highlights the 50 top tech leaders who are leveraging technology to transform their companies and the role of the CIO. It explains how the CIO has become the shapeshifter of the C-suite in the digital era, and how many of the technology leaders highlighted on the third annual Forbes CIO Next list bear titles other than CIO. It also discusses how the lines between CTO and CIO have blurred in a world where everything is connected and the platform is the product.