Alignment spins on executive collaboration

Aligning technology with business is a collaborative effort that should be jointly shared by both an organization's CIO and its CFO. But that's easier said than done, according to a recent study. Celent surveyed tech and finance leaders within financial services, and only 58 percent report a "moderate" collaboration and only one-third responded that they have a highly collaborative environment. A big aspect to making it a reality is pulling in the CEO, say experts, and taking a strong top-down approach and as one CIO says, IT has to be viewed as "a lever behind business process improvement" focused on helping an organization leverage its abilities.

For more on improving collaboration:
- see this article at FinanceTech