 | | By Doug Henschen | | | CFOs Join CMOs In Tech Power Grab Chief financial officers' level of influence over technology decisions has increased over the last three years. This is the key finding of a just-released study, and it's a familiar trend, as the same thing is said to be happening with chief marketing officers.
Some CIOs might view increasing CFO and CMO influence over tech decisions as a threat. But executives at Oracle and Accenture, the co-sponsors of the CFO study, urge CIOs to view the trend as an opportunity to educate and cooperate with C-level peers.
"There's a lot of new technology that these executives need to be aware of, so the onus is on the CIO to educate them on the return on investments in things like cloud, big data, and analytics," said Scott Brennan, global managing director of Accenture's Finance & Enterprise Performance unit. "The CIO may have to become as much an influencer as a decision-maker."
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