IDG Contributor Network: CIO focus needs to shift from cutting IT costs

Put your own house in order before you start giving advice to others is a popular idiom. And CIOs have been doing that for years, incrementally cutting costs in IT functions. But what if the mandate from your CEO is for IT to help improve the performance of another department such as finance and accounting (F&A), for instance, but at the same time cut F&A costs by 60 percent? How can IT help that department?We at Everest Group are assisting in a strategic plan for a client’s IT org