- Organizations frequently accept a disconnect between IT and the business as an unavoidable reality.
- This prevents IT from being a true business partner and from delivering projects and driving processes that create real business value.
Return to Manage IT in Turbulent Times
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Business-IT alignment has the largest impact on IT governance success.
- Successful IT organizations involve organizational stakeholders in setting IT priorities and policies, and in deploying that technology. Others struggle to make the right decisions in an information vacuum.
Impact and Result
- Adapt to the business model changing suddenly and unpredictably
- Adopt new technologies (e.g. mobile, social) and develop new strategies
- Respond to an increase in client & staff demand and sophistication
- Think strategically: You can't cut your way to success, and the status quo is expensive