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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business Review

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is elegantly logical: Expenses must be justified for each new budget period based on demonstrable needs and costs, as opposed to the more common method of using last year’s budget as your starting point, then adjusting up or down. We believe the exact opposite to be true.

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

Harvard Business Review

There are those who still believe that technology alone solves all problems, thus policy-based governance is unnecessary and there is no downside to information growth. CIO''s need to move beyond technology myopia to become information governance leaders and executive partners in policy direction and enforcement.

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