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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Then I became an advocate.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

CIO''s are commonly accountable only for information in the middle of its lifecycle (storage, security, and availability), and their control systems reflect this. There are no overarching frameworks, few controls, little guidance, no audits, and seldom consequences when staff create and hoard information.

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