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The CIO sees things that others don’t. Consistent principles should be implemented the same way across the entire organization. The CIO can see what will adversely impact versus help the overall organization.
A company or organization that effectively leverages IT regardless of strategic focus would be considered by most to be “good at IT”. Leveraging strategy via IT means targeting technology investments to enhance specific strategic objectives.
In many middle-market companies, the IT function reports to finance. This, we believe, is the result of the long-term evolution of IT within the organization – IT began its life, primarily, as the provider of the financial systems used to keep “score” within the company – and the “scorekeeper” was finance, so it was only natural the IT function reported in to finance. Additionally, many organizations considered IT an overhead cost (and a substantial one) and who better than finance to manage a large overhead item?
Certainly the world has changed … most IT organizations answer in the affirmative. IT budgets, hiring and salaries are on the rise at the majority of companies, according to the latest annual CIO survey from the Society for Information Management (SIM).
We believe we are undergoing a fundamental shift in the way IT decisions are made. They are no longer made solely by IT and, increasingly, we see finance, line-of-business, and the executive committee exert significant influence on the IT project decision.
The growth of interest in all levels of cloud computing is having an impact on the types of discussions CIOs are having with their CFOs. Cloud computing is influencing corporate IT and the way CIOs structure their IT budgets.
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