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By Steff Gelston

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Groce says it wasn't possible to achieve such efficiencies in the past because the technology wasn't mature enough to support such realignments or companies' reporting requirements. "Ten years ago such a move would have created confusion. Today you can truly supplant the layers, the redundancies in management and in geographies with technology, he says. The result: Other people move out and the CIO moves up.

-Meridith Levinson

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