CAR Financial CIO on new ways for IT to create value

One of the seismic shifts underway in enterprise technology involves a growing number of business units taking on IT-related tasks independent of the IT team. Increasingly, software tools are being designed for non-IT professionals to gather their own insights from data and serve their own customers. 

While this shift demands adjustments within an organization's processes and structures, it can also create opportunities for CIOs to redefine their team's value and purpose. CAR Financial Services, a unit of CompuCredit Corp. in Atlanta, uses a technology from Pagos Inc. that allows business units to quickly convert spreadsheets into database-driven applications that can be accessed by their customers via a browser. In an interview with FierceCIO, CAR Financial CIO Kas Naderi talks about the evolving role of his IT organization and new ways to create value as some IT-related tasks migrate to non-IT professionals. Read more...