Who Should Take Responsibility for Business Architecture?

by Bartosz Kiepuszewski

I recently had an interesting (and heated) discussion about business-IT alignment with a friend of mine who is CIO of a big organization. Another friend, who is a HR manager, wants to deploy an e-recruitment solution in her organization. I asked my CIO friend whether he would be willing to take responsibility for the business success of such a rollout. In other words, instead of just providing a reliable, robust IT solution that enabled clearly defined recruitment processes, would he be willing to share the responsibility for the cut of recruitment costs in the HR department?