If you oversee your company’s Information Systems Department, what issues would you want to clarify with prospective vendors?

Please choose any two of the following alternatives and offer a brief explanation of each one: how the advantages of information technology may be used by management if given the chance.

The head of the IT group in a company often is called the chief information officer (CIO) or chief technology officer (CTO). Should the CIO or CTO report to the company president, to the finance department, where many of the information systems are used, or to someone or somewhere else? Would it matter to whom they would report? Why or why not?