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Ten IT Enabled Business Trends

The IT-enabled business trends report discusses fresh opportunities for companies to create new sources of value—new products, new ways of touching customers, and new tools for improving operating efficiency. They also have the potential to shift profit pools, disrupt markets and commercial relationships, undermine existing market leaders, and shift value to consumers or among producers.

Business and IT Trends

This report highlights key business and technology trends. This report can be used by CIOs to stay ahead of the curve to identify strategic uses of information technology. Good Read!

What Determines the Success of Strategic IT Plan?

<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">This research study identified an organizational framework to assess the success of a strategic planning initiative – this framework is based on several factors each of which can have an impact on the success or failure of the initiative. Can one use this framework to predict the success of an IT strategic Plan? Read On.</span><br />

Case Study: Running IT Like a Business

This study puts in context “running IT like a business” making the vital connections that must be made with issues of business IT alignment, IT value, IT Organization design, and IT finance.

Researching IT Strategy

This research study compares the needs/requirements/issues of IT strategy practitioners – issues that matter most to them – and the IT strategy research agenda in academia. The problem? The study found a striking difference between the two.

Strategic use of IT

This case study explores three aspects of IT fusion with the business – how much does it affect current operations and future developments, business IT alignment maturity, and the interaction of the three strategies in the strategy triangle.

Benchmark of IT Strategy

These surveys provide insight into IT Strategy use, adoption and results in organizations.

Does Business IT Alignment Vary By Business Type?

This research paper explores an interesting question: does business and IT strategy integration differ by the way an organization creates value? In other words, do some types of businesses require a higher level of business and IT strategy integration while some others can make do with a lower level?

IT Alignment in Higher Education

This report summarizes the findings of a research into business it alignment in higher education institutions – what ails IT in higher education? what are the challenges? what are different institutions doing to overcome business it alignment challenges? what are some best practices in IT alignment? what are lessons learnt in business it alignment in higher education?

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