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Latest News: CIOs Apparently Don't Know or Understand Their IT Costs and Values

Posted October 10, 2007 | Leadership |

Last week, an article titled, "Big Spenders Reveal they know little about the value of IT Assets," appeared in the Financial Times (1 October 2007). The article reported on research conducted by MicroFocus, UK provider of enterprise application management systems. The essence of the findings (covering 250 firms, half in the US and half in Europe):

  1. Most CIOs (and half of CFOs) do not quantify the impact of IT investments on the company

About The Author
Bob Benson
Bob Benson applies more than 40 years of academic and corporate experience to assist companies and government agencies in understanding the business value of IT, strategic and financial IT management, strategic IT planning, effective IT application development, and IT governance. He has written more than 100 Cutter Consortium Advisors on business technology strategy and IT governance as well as additional Executive Reports, Updates, and Cutter… Read More
Tom Bugnitz
Tom Bugnitz's specialties include business and organization transformation through information systems, information systems organization management, technology planning, the impact of new and emerging technologies, the impact of technology on business strategies, information systems operations, strategic systems applications, and leadership for executives. Mr. Bugnitz has lectured widely on these subjects and has codeveloped methodologies in… Read More
Tom Bugnitz
Tom Bugnitz's specialties include business and organization transformation through information systems, information systems organization management, technology planning, the impact of new and emerging technologies, the impact of technology on business strategies, information systems operations, strategic systems applications, and leadership for executives. Mr. Bugnitz has lectured widely on these subjects and has codeveloped methodologies in… Read More
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