O Controller como gestor da Tecnologia da Informação - realidade ou ficção?

Abstract

Information Technology has quickly increased its importance in several business areas, creating constantly new challenges for company managers. Within such context, controllers are expected to be responsible for supplying and managing the information control systems as well as evaluating the company performance, instead of simply having good knowledge on technology. All these professionals need to participate deeply into the IT area of a company - that is, in the process of company management computerizing. This study presents a review of specific bibliography concerning Information Technology applied to the company organizational environment and also discusses the necessity of having a Controllership working in this same area management. It has been equally carried out a survey together controlling managers of both Information Technology and Controllership areas in order to collect their opinions on paper about the Controller working in the Information Technology management, and, besides that, some other interesting comments on the results were also taken into consideration in this article.

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