Compliance as business driver

Some CIOs call me saying I'm creating a problem for them. I tell them this is an opportunity for them to shine and that they need to step up to the challenge. They say they need that like a bullet hole in the head. Their managers tell them they need to be compliant, but they are providing no additional resources and are imposing strict deadlines. I think CIOs need to get to the people in the corporation who hold the purse strings. In seven out of 10 cases, CFOs are focused on audits and what needs to be reported. If companies took a broader view, they could create an agile enterprise with a flexible infrastructure that could make compliance with a host of regulations such as HIPAA, the Patriot Act, Sarbanes-Oxley and Gramm-Leach-Bliley that much easier.
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