The changing role of IT
A significant portion of corporate budgets go to IT, yet many CEOs are unclear about the value they get for the money spent. Questions remain why IT spending must be so high, why it must rise year on year or why it takes such a long time to implement new functionality - and why this functionality sometimes misses the “business point” it was supposed to address.

CIOs and IT leaders need to expand their role beyond the confines of traditional IT management duties. In short, that means that CIOs need to focus on:

• integrating IT within the company's business strategy
• establishing the IT organization as a business partner focused on maximizing business return from IT.

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