Miko made an observation that the credit crunch would see a return to the CIO reporting to the CFO and doing the axeman commeth on the IT costs. Well I'd like to make an SOA prediction. SOA will lead to the CIO being responsible for the data-centre and back-office applications and other costs being devolved back to the business and rationalised as a single entity rather than business and IT costs being rationalised as separate things.
So my SO Credit Crunch model would have the CIO relegated to the IT utility and cost areas and the business folks responsible for IT value creation and differentiation thus creating a fragmented IT department but one that is better suited to the overall business model. Steve
