CFO Magazine Article on IT Budgets

[deanwebb]

So, I once signed up to get CFO magazine for free... I still get emails from them, and this one caught my eye. It was a link to a whitepaper that, in the first few paragraphs, basically could be interpreted as gutting the infrastructure budget and giving it all to the developers.



This may be coming to a CFO near you, so you might want to read it so that you'll be prepared to prove how your functions aren't all just "keep it running" IT, but with some investment, you can do things as important as - or even more important than - those developers.

http://pages.cfo.com/Blackline---Enabling-Growth-With-Technology-2016-Teach---FR_download_ebook_mb.html

You'll need to fill out some info to get the PDF. They don't check very hard, if at all, on the accuracy of your data. I've been CFO of Zzzptm Heavy Industries since about 2004... 

[deanwebb]

Reading more... one article read like, "Finance departments are becoming more automated, so if you want to have a job, you better figure out how to take over the IT department, or at the very least get your hooks in it so deep that they can't live without you." Yeeesh.