This report tracks five technology trends that will shape our personal and professional lives. CIOs can use this report to understand these trends, and ascertain their impact on the business – to use IT strategically, to create competitive advantage for their business. CIO as a business leader must master trends shaping their business landscape.
This whitepaper envisions the enterprise of the future where employees are at the center of business strategy – they are encouraged, and enabled to deliver business results. What are the technologies driving this trend to hire, and retain top talent? This paper identifies them and lays out a roadmap to transform an enterprise from it's current "employee is a tool" to "employee is a strategic asset" mindset. Good Read!
This paper presents a step by step process to develop a strategic plan for IT. Quick read to get the basics of IT strategy – business IT alignment – and the IT strategic planning process.
What is an IT strategy without implementation? What is the biggest impediment to a successful implementation? This whitepaper argues that business IT alignment will remain a pipe-dream until CIOs figure out how to implement application systems. Then, it offers advice on how to do just that.
Our comprehensive IT Strategic Planning Framework delves into the critical aspects of effective planning, from aligning IT initiatives with organizational goals to managing resources. Learn from industry-leading practices and set the stage for your IT success.
This comprehensive IT Strategy Framework for local governments offers practical tools, templates, and assessment models to improve ICT governance, manage emerging technologies, and ensure business continuity.
This white paper discusses best practices in implementing IT services to run IT like a business. It provides examples of these principles being applied to real life situations. A good place to understand leading practices in identifying and implementing IT enabled business services that drive business value and are the foundation of "Running IT Like a Business."
This document describes the journey of and results from the transformation of an IT organization to run like a business. A good place to learn why IT should be run like a business and what to expect along the journey.
This presentation discusses the implementation of running IT like a business, specifically the enterprise architecture in support of this new paradigm. This excellent discussion lays out the foundation of a business focused delivery of IT services, considerations in planning the migration to this new model, and the reference architecture to support it. Very good place to learn about enterprise architecture considerations in the creation, delivery and consumption of IT services.
Business architecture, in general, and capability mapping, in particular, have injected clarity into the complex business/IT transformation puzzle. The business capability provides the link between two complex, yet disparate, environments: business architecture and IT architecture. This Executive Report by William Ulrich and Michael Rosen discusses how capability mapping enables business analysis and business/IT architecture alignment. Among the topics discussed are capability mapping, IT architecture transformation, the use of capabilities to specify service-oriented architecture (SOA), and the transformation of core IT architectures.
