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<h2>Recruiting process in technology<br />
<span>By Vic Combe on 27 Apr 2010 </span></h2>
<p> CIO — Just about five months ago, management consultant Don Rekko posed this question to CIO Forum members on the social-networking site LinkedIn: "What makes a CFO uniquely qualified to be heading up IT?"
At first glance, the question might sound rather generic, seemingly trodding upon an age-old topic unlikely to unleash a furious debate among the various CIOs, IT professional and other forum members. It's kind of like asking: Why are there so many potholes on the streets of Massachusetts in February? The answer is that it just kinda happens, you can't really do much about it, and that's the way it'll always be in Massachusetts, though it's not necessarily that way in other states. </p>
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Rekko is managing director of METRI, a boutique management consulting firm that works with large European user organizations and system integrators. He's seen lots of "strong CIOs" and plenty of "weak CIOs" over the years, and this question has proved eternally interesting to him. Which is why he asked it. </p>
<h2>Why the CFO?</h2>
<p>The generally accepted account of why CFOs have been installed as IT's de facto boss is this: IT was forged in finance departments to help with the digitization of accounting functions; thus the majority of "IT spend" in the early days was on financial computing initiatives. It was only logical that that's where IT was placed on the org chart.</p>
<p>And that's where IT and its de facto chiefs stayed for decades. </p>
<p>here was also, perhaps not coincidentally, always a little breathing room between CEOs and the expanding and bewildering IT departments. IT executive Scott Brower, commenting in the forum, offered this rationale: "As a support organization, [IT] was not something that the CEO felt the need to keep close so it made it sense to have real financial stewardship controlling it," Brewer wrote. "This also created a buffer where the CFO, knowing business, could deliver the necessary message to the CEO rather than some techies speaking in 1's and 0's." </p>
<p>Of course, the CFOs spoke in 1's and 0's too—but the gulf between the two departments always seemed vast: balance sheet 1's and 0's versus programming code 1's and 0's don't fit together well. But over the years, CEOs wanted constant control over ballooning IT spend. And who better to do that than the Chief Bean Counter?</p>
<p> Several commenters in CIO Forum discussion pointed out this salient fact, however: IT is where it is (still under the CFO at many companies) because that's where the CEO wants it to be. In other words, don't blame the "clueless" bean-counter for the reporting assignment, who may not even want the responsibility in the first place. Talk to the head honcho. </p>
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