Forget SOX!
Are “flavors of the month” such as SOX and ITIL taking away focus from IT Governance?
March 16, 2009
CIO Knowledgebase – Page 505
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)...)
CIOs can use this step-by-step guide to improve business IT alignment
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.
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!
Learn about e-business, its benefits, types, components, and examples. Understand the differences between e-commerce and e-business and their future outlook.
The Politics of Major IT Projects
Why do big IT Projects fail? There are many reasons. Mismanagement, new technology and immature IT Organization are amongst them. However, the most frequent reason for large project failure is organizational dynamics or politics.
March 16, 2009
Project Portfolio Earned Value Management Using Treemaps
There are various techniques applied to manage project portfolios. This paper discusses using Earned Value Management and Treemaps. The latter provides a very powerful visual technique.
March 16, 2009
Overview of International IT Guidance on IT Governance Frameworks
This document offers a global overview of the following important international standards and guidance for IT control and IT security in relationship to COBIT: COSO, ITIL®, ISO/IEC 17799:2005, FIPS Pub 200, ISO/IEC TR13335, ISO/IEC 15408, 2005, PRINCE2®, PMBOK®, TickIT, CMMI®, TOGAF 8.1, IT Baseline Protection Manual and NIST 800-14.
March 12, 2009
Value Discovery: A Better Way to Prioritize IT Investments
The current debate over IT spending often misses the point. Its not how much you spend, its the way you manage your IT spending that counts. The goal is not reduced spending but selective, value-creating spending that makes a greater contribution to the bottom line.
March 12, 2009
Managing Changing ROI of Offshore Outsourcing
The unit labor costs are rising – exponentially in some instances – in key offshore destinations such as India. People switch jobs in a matter of weeks – the attrition rates are always a problem in booming economies. So how do you cope?
March 6, 2009
Revisiting Outsourcing
Is it time to rethink your outsourcing relationship? If you have made one of the errors highlighted in this article then the answer is yes!
March 6, 2009
The Economics of Outsourcing
An excellent presentation on the "economics" of outsourcing. Tackles key questions with data and analysis…not hype! Must read
March 6, 2009
Assessing client maturity: a key to successful outsourcing
This paper presents the Client Outsourcing Maturity Model (COMM), a three-dimensional framework and provides an example of its assessment methodology results.
March 6, 2009
A Framework to Create a Business Case for Outsourcing
This paper presents a framework for assessing outsourcing benefits and costs from the firm’s perspective
March 6, 2009