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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Has IT moved from being a cost center to a value center? Does the CFO agree? How would a CFO measure the value contributed by IT to the bottom line? This paper discusses these questions and more.
This whitepaper discusses a plan of action to implement an operating model for the IT Organization that delivers value to the business. CIOs must deliver value to the business with a clear focus on communicating this value transparently, and with a clear sense of accountability and ownership.
Is running IT as a business within a business critical to the survival of a CIO – the CIO role itself? The author lays out the argument for running IT like a business, and discusses how it can be done to deliver business value.
This paper explores the factors governing the decision to run internal support functions/organizations a a business. The discussion provides an excellent example of the kind of issues a CIO must grapple with as they make the decision to run IT like a business.
Explore this white paper to understand how implementing IT-as-a-Service can revolutionize financial transparency in IT operations, aligning costs with business objectives.
This paper discusses running IT like a business for better business results from IT investments. The author argues that the concept of running IT like a business is not about just the financial considerations, it entails a comprehensive approach which must include integrated processes, governance, and metrics to prove the
A quick discussion on what is means to run IT like a business and how to get that done.
This study puts in context “running IT like a business” making the vital connections that must be made with issues of business IT alignment, IT value, IT Organization design, and IT finance.
This research study explores the progress IT organizations have made “running IT like a business.” The idea behind running IT as a business is to align IT capability with business requirements/goals/critical success factors. The latter varies by the maturity of the business and drives the maturity of IT capability (which manifests itself as IT services/products etc.).
This presentation approaches “running IT like a business” as “running the business of IT.” It explains what it means, what are its benefits, what are some leading practices, where to start, how to implement it, and how to measure success.
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