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Part 1: IT and Business alignment

IT muscles in on the business
No longer a pure internal services arm, the IT department is proving to be a potent tool for influencing corporate strategy and increasing competitiveness ... read more

Governance helps charitable outfit get with the Plan
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How may an enterprise act like a startup?
When shifting market conditions or competition require it to be flexible, adopt new procedures, restructure its operations and systems, a company may not be able to accomplish that quickly enough
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Two trends, one irony
Any change of process within an organization has to be undertaken with a great deal of care: questions have to be asked about what benefits the change will result in, and whether it will be worth the time and money involved.
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The intrapraneurial factor
In order to retain such staffers and not see their investment in them go to waste, executives, including CIOs, must be willing to give them perhaps more latitude and freedom that typically accorded younger employees
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Communicating IT value – an expert shows how
If information technology (IT) has to serve business, IT must talk the language of business, says Savino DiPasquale, vice-president of IT and CIO at GlaxoSmithKline. Read the article, see the video...
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Making the business case for IT projects
CIOs and wine connoisseurs (like me, many of you may be both) can appreciate the power of timing. In wine and IT, timing often makes the difference between technical and financial success and unmitigated failure. Within that framework, here are our three approaches to IT investments: ...
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