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Integrated Strategic Management Model

Integrated Strategic Management Model: Bridging the Strategy and Implementation Gap for Sustainable Success

This Integrated Strategic Management Model offers a robust framework for aligning strategy with execution. Expanding upon the Balanced Scorecard, this model integrates best-practice tools such as activity-based costing, dynamic budgeting, and process management to ensure that strategy is effectively operationalized. The model guides organizations through a comprehensive, six-stage process, helping them to continuously adapt and optimize performance. Ideal for CIOs and business leaders, this resource delivers practical steps to bridge the gap between strategic planning and real-world results.

June 20, 2016

Improving Business IT Alignment

This presentation demonstrates the chasm between business, and IT, dives into the root causes of mis-alignment, and proposes restructuring the entire IT Organization to create effective business IT alignment. An excellent treatment of business IT alignment from an IT function perspective. The author demonstrates the business IT disconnect is real,

May 11, 2016

Creating Competitive Advantage with Information Technology

This series of presentations provides an in-depth guide to the number one issue on a CIO’s agenda: business IT alignment. It defines the role of information technology in creating competitive advantage for the enterprise. Excellent Read! (~500 slides)

February 25, 2016

Creating a Strategic IT Organization

This whitepaper discusses practical ways to shift IT investments away from utility to differentiated IT capability initiatives. Using this approach an IT Organization can create increased strategic value.

October 6, 2015

Case Study on Aligning IT with Business

This business-IT alignment case study offers a step-by-step approach, from problem definition to implementation, shedding light on the intricacies of achieving seamless aligning business capabilities with IT infrastructure.

October 6, 2015

Why is Aligning IT with Business so Hard?

What is an IT strategy without implementation? What is the biggest impediment to a successful implementation? This whitepaper argues that business IT alignment will remain a pipe-dream until CIOs figure out how to implement application systems. Then, it offers advice on how to do just that.

May 30, 2015

What is a Business Capability Map?

Business architecture, in general, and capability mapping, in particular, have injected clarity into the complex business/IT transformation puzzle. The business capability provides the link between two complex, yet disparate, environments: business architecture and IT architecture. This Executive Report by William Ulrich and Michael Rosen discusses how capability mapping enables business analysis and business/IT architecture alignment. Among the topics discussed are capability mapping, IT architecture transformation, the use of capabilities to specify service-oriented architecture (SOA), and the transformation of core IT architectures.

April 24, 2015

Comprehensive Introduction to Information Technology (IT) Strategy

This set of presentations provides guidance for the CIO who wants to manage IT for strategic advantage. It provides a bird’s eye view to IT Strategy or the strategic use of information technology – how to use IT to create business advantage? It delves into the obvious: What is IT

January 11, 2015
Alternative Processes for Business IT Alignment3 Assessing Business IT Alignment1 Best Practices for Business IT Alignment3 Business IT Alignment Basics2 Collection of Guides on Business IT Alignment1 Examples, Samples, Practical Applications, and Success Stories of Business IT Alignment4 Frameworks for Business IT Alignment5 Maturing Business IT Alignment Capability4
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