Strategy & Governance - Blueprints

Establish a Service-Based Costing Model

Service-based costing brings clarity to IT expenditures and visibility to IT consumption. However, overcoming the challenges of service-based costing requires a logical...
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Make IT a Partner in Successful M&A Due Diligence

Even though IT-related activities can be the larget cost item in an M&A, many organizations continue to underestimate the role IT plays in successfully executing a merger...
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Make IT a Successful Partner in M&A Integration

Many organizations forget the essential role IT plays during M&A integration. The involvement of IT is critical to providing a better view of risks, improving ease of...
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Implement an IT Chargeback System

IT needs to recover its costs from those that use IT services with a fair and transparent approach. Develop a chargeback model that explains IT costs in a way that...
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Create an IT View of the Service Catalog

Organizations must have a clear understanding of their IT services and how IT delivers them. Use the structured guidelines within this blueprint to help you document the...
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Establish a Foresight Capability

An innovative CIO must identify relevant trends early and respond to them quickly. By applying strategic foresight, CIOs can help their organizations become more...
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Implement a New IT Organizational Structure

Managing organizational design (OD) changes effectively is critical to maintaining IT service levels and retaining top talent throughout a restructure. Yet many...
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CIO Trend Report 2017

Trend reports can provide an academic outlook as to what is happening in the technology landscape, but not much else. CIOs need a framework to develop concrete insight...

Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business

IT often manages stakeholders who don’t know how to articulate what they want. Requirements often say what the business needs, but rarely does discussion about the...
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Document Business Goals and Capabilities for Your IT Strategy

Understand the business context specific to your strategic IT initiative. Each strategic IT project requires answers to a specific set of questions regarding the...
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