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

Harvard Business Review

But it should be the CIO''s job. 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. The time is ripe for CIOs to take a page from the CFOs'' playbook to ensure both accountability and responsibility for information creation.

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All Boards Need a Technology Expert

Harvard Business Review

The main reason for this lag is that the project horizon of most IT overhauls goes beyond executive tenures. Using Moore’s Law , zero-based budgeting would call for technology spending to fall each year by about 30%; in most companies spending goes up by at least 5% each year.