It's Time for CIOs to Get in the Game

12.05.2011

Yet people will keep asking the value question about IT, which is often one of the biggest expenditure lines in a company's budget. Calculating the value that technology spending delivers to the top line is admittedly an evolving art, all the CIOs we interviewed for this story agreed.

Their best collective advice? Start somewhere, and start soon.

"You will never find a perfect way of doing this," says Chevron CIO Louie Ehrlich. "There's value in just getting in the game."

Maryfran Johnson is the editor in chief of CIO Magazine & Events. Email her at .

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