Reading the CIO's Mind

15.06.2011
CIO Magazine takes on a serious topic for IT department heads -- and a topic that should greatly interest finance chiefs, as well. The current issue looks at what CFOs need to hear about cloud computing and consumer technology.

In brief, former Wall Street Journal reporter Bill Bulkeley, an extremely skilled former colleague of mine, whose writing also has graced the webpages of CFOworld, finds that IT leaders need to start changing the way they talk with finance -- both at budget time, and all year round. Two key areas for detailed CIO-CFO discussion are cloud computing, and consumerization.

-- and an accompanying story titled "") -- and notes that the changing relationship between tech and finance is still at an early stage. But she declares that CIOs must start thinking of themselves "as providers of services rather than infrastructure."

I'm sure the finance community would agree.

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