e-Book – Understanding IT Strategy
This e-book provides guidance to managers on creating an IT capability that creates business value. An excellent discussion for the CIO to understand why do what they must! (600 pages)
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A Framework for Post Merger Integration (PMI) Success
This paper presents a framework based on both hard and soft factors to understand the outcome of post merger integration. This framework can be an excellent tool in decision making to ensure PMI success. (400 pages)
A Complete Guide to Strategic Planning: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques
This document provides an in-depth introduction to strategic planning, details the process for creating a strategic plan, and discusses tools and techniques to perform the underlying analysis. Excellent resource for a CIO to learn how the business creates strategy, and use the techniques to create a strategic plan for IT. (70 pages)
Example: Using Guiding Principles to Guide Enterprise Wide IT Strategic Planning
This document details the IT Strategy plan based upon a demand and supply view of business IT alignment. Good discussion on the monitoring and control
Strategic Planning Example
This document details a strategic plan and the planning process used to develop it. Great resource for the CIO to learn the strategic planning process and see it in action.
Business Strategy Overview: Boosting Competitiveness and Productivity
This overview provides comprehensive insights into business strategy, covering key areas such as strategy formulation, operations strategy, and tactics. It guides businesses in aligning their strategy with their mission and goals, offering guidelines for managing internal and external factors, improving productivity, and navigating global markets.
IT Strategic Planning Process Example
This example illustrates the process to develop a business focused strategic plan for the IT organization. Good reading to understand the steps and rationale behind them when developing an IT Strategy.
Guide to Post Merger Integration of Technology Capability
This in-depth report lays the foundation for a meaningful understanding of successful post merger integration of information technology. It explains the issues with technology integration between two companies after a merger or acquisition, why they arise, and how to overcome them. CIOs can use this to create a post merger IT Integration Plan. Excellent Read! (200 pages)
How to Turbo Charge Your Strategy?
This guide provides an in-depth look at the Hedgehog Concept, showing how businesses can streamline their strategies and achieve sustained growth by focusing on a simple, central strategy rooted in three dimensions: what they can be the best at, what drives their economic engine, and what they are passionate about.
How to Reduce IT Complexity?
CIOs face a dilemma: sophistication drives value but the resulting complexity can have the exact opposite effect. So, you must manage complexity and occasionally work to reduce it. This paper discusses how CIOs can reduce complexity in their IT Organization.
