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Is The CIO Necessary?

March 31, 2011 by Chris Lockhart

The purpose of a company is to make money and to make that money while somehow imparting a positive effect to its customers. Can IT enable the business without a clearly laid out Vision? Without that sense of purpose, doesn’t IT typically make a mosh o…

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