The “Run IT Like a Business” category is an essential resource for CIOs, IT leaders, and technology professionals seeking to transform their IT organization into a value-driven, customer-focused, and efficient business unit. As part of our CIO Reference Library, this category offers insights, practical advice, and resources on various aspects of running IT like a business, including IT leadership, strategy, service management, and financial management.
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By staying up-to-date with the latest “Run IT Like a Business” resources, CIOs, IT leaders, and aspiring professionals can gain valuable insights, practical guidance, and information on how to excel in their roles and advance their careers. Visit this category regularly to discover new content that will help you stay current with industry trends, develop your understanding of IT’s role as a business unit, and succeed in the dynamic world of IT leadership.
Leverage this 7-step guide to transform your IT department into a value center. Learn how to align IT with business goals, drive innovation, and demonstrate IT’s tangible contribution to your organization.
This is an exploration of the evolving role of CIOs in running IT like a business. It provides strategies for effective IT costing, tool selection, and aligning IT operations with business goals to drive value.
This guide provides a detailed roadmap for CIOs to transform their IT departments into agile, service-oriented entities using IT as a Service (ITaaS) principles. Learn about new operational models, automation, and self-service capabilities to stay ahead in the evolving IT landscape.
This guide provides insights into transforming internal functions into strategic business units. Learn about aligning operations with corporate goals, best practices from industry leaders, and effective measurement techniques to demonstrate value.
This guide on transforming IT into a service-oriented organization (ITaaSO) covers the principles, roles, and lifecycle necessary to align IT services with business goals. It offers practical insights into improving efficiency, transparency, and cost-effectiveness in IT operations.
This guide provides a detailed roadmap for CIOs and IT leaders to transition their organizations to an IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) model. It covers ten key steps, including defining a vision, acquiring resources, developing a services framework, and implementing change management strategies. Learn how to enhance your IT operations’ agility, efficiency, and alignment with business needs.
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.
CIOs want to run their information technology organizations like a business because it not only creates superior value but also communicates this value to the other parts of the business effectively. So, what are the challenges they face in implementing this model of IT operations? This survey studied this issue and provides specific challenges IT organizations face in their implementation of a business like operating model. CIOs can learn from this challenges and provide effective responses to improve their chances of success.
