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IT Strategy Best Practices – Page 3

Running IT Like a Business Example

This case study details the workings on an internal information technology (IT) organization as a business. You can use this running IT as a business example to create your own model for the business of IT.

Running IT as a Business Using ITIL

The author discusses using ITIL framework for IT transformation to meet the challenges faced by a CIO today – manage IT in the context of business, allocate more dollars to innovation versus maintenance, establish an operating model for IT that maximizes business value, ensure round the clock availability of mission critical applications and do all this for lower cost!

How to Run IT As a Business

CIOs are under pressure to produce ever-more business value for even-less IT dollars. Is running IT as a business a solution? Exactly what does that entail? This research delved into this issue and spoke to current CIOs – what are they doing to run IT as a business? why? what are the results?

Case Study: New IT Operating Model

This case study describes a new IT operating model – a new process to manage IT investments – that fosters innovation, improves architecture and paves the way to standardization across the enterprise.

Business Driven IT Strategy

This presentation provides best practice based guidance on creating a business driven information technology strategy (IT Strategy).

How To Achieve Benefit from IT Investments?

This guide provides an overview of a framework to plan and implement sustainable value generating IT capability. It discusses the key steps, activities, stages, and roles and responsibilities to make IT successful.

Benchmark of IT Strategy

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

Introduction to Critical Success Factors

This paper introduces the critical success factors (CSF) concept, the process to develop a working set of CSFs and an example of applying the CSF method to develop a security strategy.

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