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Business and IT Alignment: An Oracle View

This paper presents the Oracle view on business and IT alignment. Oracle framework of business and IT alignment proposes three elements namely, management excellence, operational excellence and technology excellence.

Stage Gate Process Overview

 This presentation provides an excellent overview of the stage gate process – periodic assessment and elimination of "dogs" from your project portfolio.

IT Strategy Best Practices: Practical Insights from a Practitioner

This presentation, given by a practitioner, provides invaluable, practical insights gained from experience implementing IT strategy in multiple organizations. Excellent tips and tricks that will be helpful to anyone engaged in IT strategy, especially a CIO whose primary responsibility is business IT alignment.

IT Strategy in the Boardroom

This study finds that "Many corporate boards now consider IT to be an untapped mine rich with possibilities for their companies’ future results." However, they do not know how to deal with "IT issues within the context of the board’s role and how to grapple with IT’s inherently complex nature and rapid pace of change." <br /> <br /> The value of this study, however, is in the "eight big ideas" that will help solve this problem.

An Overview of IT Strategy

Everything you wanted to know about IT Strategy but were afraid to ask. What is IT Strategy? Why do you need an IT Strategy? How do you create an IT Strategy? What are the 10 best practices in IT Strategy? Where to go for more information on IT Strategy? Excellent

SOLACE in IT Strategy

IT Strategy is nothing without its implementation. How can CIOs get some “SOLACE” from their IT Strategy? Read on!

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