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Business IT Strategic Alignment Lessons Learnt

This master thesis provides insights into business-IT Strategic alignment concept in theory and practice, and it addresses two important issues within business-IT strategic alignment – 1) define strategic alignment and alignment gap between business and IT strategy 2) how to manage strategic alignment – using a conceptual model validated by illustrative case studies.

Strategy For Enterprise 2.0

This article discusses formulating the strategy for Enterprise 2.0 – people, processes and technology working in unison to increase revenue, reduce costs or increase productivity.

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?

Financial Management for IT as a Business

This presentation describes some leading practices for financial management at information technology organizations – the model is IT as an internal business or internal service organization.<br /><br />Good discussion.

What Do Great IT Strategies Look Like?

This presentation provides a business perspective to information technology (IT) strategy. It provides guidance to help CIOs create a business driven IT strategy – assess current IT strategy and identify areas for improvement, define the purpose and scope of the new IT strategy, create communication mechanisms to help IT strategy adoption and define the high level steps to create an IT strategy.

Developing a Capabilities Driven IT Strategy Roadmap

Silos drive an unfocused, inefficient, and ineffective IT investments. The authors make the case for an integrated, strategy driven – capability driven – information technology strategy that aligns business needs – the demand side – with IT capability – supply side – that provide true competitive advantage and reduce or even eliminate duplication and waste. The article then discusses the four steps to this capability driven IT strategy roadmap.

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