Organize IT's financial, technical, and human resources around business strategy in order to deliver maximum business value.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) exists in every enterprise. It is often a low priority for IT managers until changes to the business make a very real, and very expensive, project. The real cost of a failed ERP initiative is IT careers.

Solution Set

IT Leaders are looking for a holistic system of IT projects and solutions that denotes business processes, information stores, applications, security and technical infrastructure. EA provides competitive advantage and significantly lower...

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Business stakeholders are not programmed to voluntarily present IT with their requirements and expectations. When the need for stakeholder management is heightened - at the start of projects and during periods of change - conduct structured...

New IT leaders will have little influence unless they build credibility with senior business officers. Become a dynamic force that motivates and coordinates the accomplishment of strategic goals by earning the trust of business leaders.

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Many organizations contemplate forming an IT steering committee to better align IT investments with business strategy, but most don't know where to start.

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IT steering committees are a best practice approach for aligning strategic business and IT priorities. Understand when the time is right to establish an IT steering committee and how to get this group started on the right track.

Taking on an IT leadership position is always challenging. Success or failure is determined by the leader's actions in the first few months. Learn what newly minted IT leaders should do to confirm they are the right person for the job.

Aligning IT strategy with the business's strategy needs to be more than just talk. A balanced scorecard approach can help turn IT/business alignment from a theoretical model into a routine way of running the business.

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This download outlines an example of BSC metrics derived from "Measuring Performance and Demonstrating Results of Information Technology," an Executive Guide of the Accounting and Information Management Division of the US General Accounting...

Organizations today recognize the impact IT can have on the success of the enterprise. As a result, boards of directors and executive management teams understand the strategic importance of IT and are putting IT governance firmly on the agenda.

Don't skip documenting your IT strategy or plan because it seems like a daunting task. Even a simple strategic plan is better than no plan at all.

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This template is developed for small and mid-sized enterprises that do not have the resources to perform full IT governance to develop a complex IT strategy. This tool provides an outline that allows CIOs to develop a simple, yet effective IT...