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Is it the CFO's responsibility to maximize IT
benefits? Read on and see what you think. Better
yet, take our very brief survey and tell
us what you think!
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Should the CFO Shoulder the Task of Maximizing IT
Benefits?
IT increasingly accounts for more and more of
today’s budgets. For many organizations, Job One is
implementing a flow of information and supply chain
processes that enable mature companies to remain
competitive as global competitors threaten.
But whose job is it to ensure that the company is
getting the most out of IT investments?
- IT, struggling to keep up with demand, typically
focuses on delivering projects on time and on budget
– then on to the next one.
- Business sponsors, likewise, focus on receiving
the technology so they can begin using it and
reaping the apparent benefits that were the
motivation for the project in the first place.
But is anyone actually measuring the benefits after
the project has been delivered? In most cases, the
answer is no – at least not with an eye to improving
returns in the sponsoring organization. Further,
there’s virtually never anyone looking at leveraging
the investment in other areas of the organization
for even greater investment returns..
IT and business sponsors rightly have their focus on
different kinds of concerns, so it would seem that
the responsibility for maximizing the value of IT
investments needs to rise to a higher level in the
organization – perhaps the CFO office.
What do you think? We invite you to take a
very brief survey that just takes two minutes.
We’ll post the
results in a subsequent edition.
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