Running IT Like a Business: Business-within-a-Business Paradigm
Running IT like as business has advantages but it requires a fundamental shift in thinking, processes and the operating model. This whitepaper discusses these changes
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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.
4 Business Capabilities to Use for Running IT Like a Business
The authors discuss a new model for IT – one that borrows key capabilities from their business counterpart. The article describes the use of these
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.
Achieving IT Financial Transparency Using IT as a Service Model
This whitepaper makes the case for IT financial transparency using IT-as-a-service delivery model for IT capability.
Three Views of Business and IT Alignment
This paper, written for CIOs and IT strategists, presents a conceptual view that helps with designing and evaluating IT strategies, and helps build business cases