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Business and IT Fusion for Shareholder Value

Is business and IT alignment sufficient to maximize shareholder value? This white paper suggests that it is not. In order for companies to create unprecedented shareholder value they must "fuse" business and IT. What must a CIO do to fuse IT with business? What are the benefits of such a fusion? Read On>>

A Framework to Run IT like a Business

This guide offers CIOs practical strategies to manage IT as a business, aligning IT with business goals, improving efficiency, and driving innovation through Technology Business Enablement. It includes actionable insights, key imperatives, and a framework of integrated capabilities.

Running IT Like a Business Using Component Business Model

This whitepaper introduces the Component Business Model Framework for the business of IT (CBM-BoIT). This framework helps IT Organizations take a business focused, strategic approach to IT aka "running IT like a business." It breaks down the IT organization into functional "components" so they can be assessed for the business value they can generate thereby helping prioritize IT investment.

Creating a Culture of Innovation

Innovation is the answer then culture is the imperative. This whitepaper discusses creating an innovation culture to support and sustain innovation.

Effective IT Planning

This white paper introduces the concept if strategic planning for information technology, discusses a framework for IT planning, and related processes to make the IT planning initiative produce results.

Business IT Management

This white paper describes business IT management as a set of core capabilities to ensure a sustainable model of IT use for business value creation. So, the role of business it management is to plan and monitor IT capability life cycle to ensure that IT performance is in line with business needs, reduces risk and is cost efficient.

The Case for IT Cost Transparency

This vendor driven whitepaper provides two case studies that illustrate the need for transparency in IT costs. You will have to step over the self promotion to get to the meat but it is worth it.

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