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

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. That''s a lot of money for digging through old e-mail. How did we get here?

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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Today's CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer

Harvard Business Review

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. The old way was about technology-centricity; the new way is about technology-empowered business strategies. Transformation Drivers.

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