CFO’s: You’ve Recently Been Put in Charge of IT Now What?
In recent years, more and more CFO’s find themselves in charge of IT departments of their respective companies. The trend is catching many of us unprepared. If you are suddenly responsible for managing IT or anticipate you may be in this position in the future, come to our meeting and discover the basic principles of running the IT department effectively.
During our December meeting we will discuss essential functions of an IT organization, how to handle the transitional period of change of control, whom to talk to and what questions to ask, and how to achieve a variety of objectives in improving IT services for your company.
As companies are trying to become more efficient, an integral part of that process is the ability to align operations with corporate goals. The IT department is crucial in accomplishing that. The responsibility for the process can and often does fall upon the Chief Financial Officer.
Yuri will host an interactive presentation that will identify the basic steps to follow in the event of being handed the task of running an IT department in conjunction with all the other financial and management responsibilities that a CFO has.
During the presentation, we will discuss:
1. How have IT departments evolved in recent years?
2. What are the functions of the IT department and their importance to the company as a whole?
3. What defines the size and the role of the IT department within a company?
4. When and how to explore outsourcing or insourcing of the IT department?
5. How do you best communicate objectives, and how do you measure progress?
We expect the meeting to be highly interactive. Bring your openness, curiosity, attention and any questions relevant to the future possibility – or current reality – of finding yourself in charge of IT.
Speaker
Yuri Diomin President of Yuri Software
About Yuri Diomin
Yuri Diomin is President of Yuri Software, Inc., a company he founded in 1997 to protect the proprietary software he had developed. In addition to the software products, Heprovides consulting services for the financial markets and other vertical industries and has extensive expertise in building mission-critical, line-of-business applications that cover the entire span of IT operations – from the back office to transactional databases, mainframe and legacy system integration, as well as Internet and Intranet applications.
Yuri Software encompasses the full spectrum of Microsoft platforms and technologies and integrates proprietary applications developed for the Windows and SQL Server platforms using tools from the low level Visual C++ to the high productivity Visual Basic, including a variety of new .NET technologies. The company uses Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers and Microsoft Certified Solution Developers and has the ability to work with and interface to numerous other platforms such as mainframe and UNIX systems.
As added value the company has a wide range of experience in networking and IT infrastructure development and maintenance. Yuri and his staff often perform IT operations for customers, including hardware, communications, local and wide area networks, Internet and wireless connectivity.
Our Sponsor-Dana Tennis
We will have coffee, juice, bagels and cream cheese for all attendees. The liquid refreshments will be graciously provided by our meeting hosts, Sheppard Mullin. The bagels and cream cheese will be provided by our meeting sponsors, Dana Tennis and a colleague from the Retirement Strategies Group. Some of you know Dana, and we're pleased to welcome her as a first-time sponsor of the FENG.
CPE
Important reminder for those members maintaining their professional certifications: we offer the documentation for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for our speaker presentations. For those members interested in this, you may complete the appropriate forms, which we'll have available at the meeting, for 1.0 hours of CPE credit.