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It Strategy Template - Featured Image
This IT strategy template provides a comprehensive outline to creating an effective IT strategic plan. The template includes sections for defining your business goals and objectives, identifying your IT capabilities, and outlining your IT strategy. The template also includes a set of metrics for measuring the success of your IT strategy.
What Is It Transformation Featured Image
IT transformation is fashionable. Buzzwords generally are. This article answers a simple question: what is IT Transformation? Defining IT Transformation is critical to the success of any CIO and the IT Organization they lead.
What Is Information Technology (It) Strategy? - Featured Image
Explore a detailed overview of IT strategy. From its definition and foundational principles to its role in driving organizational success, this guide delves into every facet of crafting, implementing, and evaluating a robust Information Technology strategy.
Demystifying Information Technology (It) Governance Featured Image
Unlock the complexities of IT governance with a clear definition, key frameworks, and strategies to align technology with business goals. Explore best practices to ensure IT governance success.
What Is Enterprise Architecture (Ea) Featured Image
Enterprise architecture (EA) is a comprehensive framework used to manage and align an organization's IT infrastructure, processes, data and strategies with its overall business goals. Learn about enterprise architecture, its definition, components, benefits, and challenges. Discover this critical business discipline's stakeholders, frameworks, and methodologies.
It Strategy Presentation Featured Image
This in-depth and engaging - 78 slides - IT Strategy Presentation [ppt] communicates just about everything you would have wanted to know about IT Strategy aka business IT alignment (ICT Strategy, IS strategy, IS strategic alignment, IT Alignment, strategic information systems planning (SISP)...)
7 Steps To Business It Alignment Featured Image
CIOs can use this step-by-step guide to improve business IT alignment
It Strategy Example Using Technology For Business Flexibility Featured Image
This information technology (IT) Strategic Plan Example details the key components of a good information technology strategy that aligns and prioritizes investments in IT with the business vision, mission, and goals.
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Planning to self-study for the TOGAF 9.1 certification? This comprehensive guide provides a clear roadmap for aspiring enterprise architects. Discover the different certification pathways, how to access the official TOGAF 9.1 framework, and recommended Open Group study guides. We've also compiled valuable resources for practice questions and offer essential tips for effective learning, exam preparation, and booking your test. Start your journey to becoming TOGAF certified today!
What Is E-Business? - Featured Image
Learn about e-business, its benefits, types, components, and examples. Understand the differences between e-commerce and e-business and their future outlook.
What are we Aligning

What are we Aligning?

This paper reviews the key business IT alignment models and frameworks and “suggests that some models of alignment could be strengthened by considering alternatives to this four domain model. Drawing on other work on the dynamics of human-technological interaction, some ideas are given as to how this task might be approached.”

Global Information Security Survey (2010)

As organizational boundaries vanish, so does the traditional information security paradigm. This survey of over 1600 participants from 56 countries highlights the information security challenges facing organizations today and how they are managing them – so you can focus on the most critical risks, and identify your strengths and weaknesses to improve information security

Five Rules of IT ROI

This article discusses the dos and don’ts of information technology return on investment aka IT ROI and introduces five simple rules to create believable IT ROI estimates for technology investments

Cyberinsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly

Is the dominance of Microsoft posing a risk to security? This paper argues that software monopoly has an additional cost: security vulnerability.

Pricewaterhouse Global Information Security Survey 2010

As global economic conditions continue to fluctuate, information security hovers in the balance caught between a new hard-won respect among executives and a painstakingly cautious funding environment. Signs of security’s strategic gains and advances stand side by side with newly emerging cracks in its foundation.

Case Study on ITIL Framework Effectiveness

Case Study: Is ITIL Framework Effective?

Case study on leveraging the ITIL framework to enhance service provision and customer satisfaction. The research project aimed to ascertain if a direct correlation exists between customer satisfaction and the use of ITIL.

Practical Application of ITIL Framework

This guide provides a comprehensive exploration of ITIL best practices, detailing the processes and principles necessary for effective IT service management. It covers key areas such as incident, problem, change, and configuration management, offering actionable insights and strategies to improve IT service delivery and align with business objectives.

Maximizing Your SOA Investment

This paper discusses the business case for the service oriented architecture (SOA) investment – "it provides the dynamic capability to create innovation for managing change and empowering competitive advantage."

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