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Digital Darwinism

This research study identifies the imperatives for players in the e-business value chain – focused on marketing-agency-media.

Designing the CIO IT Organization

An excellent presentation on the CIO Organization – what are the key functions? what functions make sense for business it alignment? what functions make sense for business value delivery? what are the typical ratios?

IT Governance Handbook

This handbook for beginners – written for people with little or no business experience – provides very good overviews of:<br /> 1) IT Governance<br /> 2) The COBIT Framework

IT Strategy in the Boardroom

This study finds that "Many corporate boards now consider IT to be an untapped mine rich with possibilities for their companies’ future results." However, they do not know how to deal with "IT issues within the context of the board’s role and how to grapple with IT’s inherently complex nature and rapid pace of change." <br /> <br /> The value of this study, however, is in the "eight big ideas" that will help solve this problem.

Strategy and Internet

"Many have argued that the Internet renders strategy obsolete. In reality, the opposite is true," argues Michael Porter. Read this seminal paper, again, for the very first time!

Governing the Portal

Why do you need to think about portal governance? Governance is a growing topic across the enterprise and a portal is just one silo in an organization. So, the real question might be: What is special about governing a portal environment? This article provides some common sense guidelines for setting up a portal governance strategy.

CIO Portal