Summary: The 'Cost Center to Strategic Partner' language directly mirrors how the CFO Survey describes finance's own evolution. As business leaders plan to modernize operations and shift from reactive to proactive company-wide transformations, developing a business component model gives companies a framework to connect business strategies to technology strategies.

Outcome: Business component model mapping business essentials to technology enablement.

Takeaway: Framework to begin to align business components and IT capability.

Key Discussion Points:

• CFO Survey related observations and insights
• The foundation for technology strategies
• How to define an enterprise business component model
• How to connect IT labor, infrastructure, software and budgets to a business component model
• How to articulate IT cost, functional fit and complexity of technologies in business terms