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70 Management of IT Articles
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Avoiding the Alignment Trap in IT
search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca— — companies seeking to deliver higher business performance by harnessing IT have focused on alignment — the degree to which the IT group understands the priorities of the business and expends its resources, pursues projects and provides information consistent with them.
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Seven Myths About Outsourcing
“In recent years, there’s been a seemingly endless boom in offshore outsourcing. But companies that think handing off an operation to an overseas provider is easy can get a rude awakening.”
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Why Bad Things Happen To Good Technology
In most companies, innovation is the responsibility of the technical side of the organization. The research and development staff is supposed to come up with the cool new technologies, and the rest of the company takes them to market.
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McCue interview: Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson
comment.silicon.com— — “Norwich Union Bets Half Its IT on India. As part of the British Insurance company’s plan to cut about $500 in costs, 40-50% of it IT work will be offshore by year end.”
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IT and the new metrics: Measuring business technology performance
canadianbusiness.com— — A growing cultural divide between IT and business unit leaders is having a significant effect on how technology investments are measured. The gap has its roots in issues of communication and metrics.
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Future of IT: Management
cioinsight.com— — No Downturn for CIO Role, Central IT. The strategic CIO/central IT organization model for IT management will continue to dominate.
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Three tips for creating a business-savvy information technology staff
cio.com— — “Your information technology staff is a great resource for competitive advantage, but only if you help your employees understand how the company makes money.”
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IT value metrics: How to communicate ROI to the business
cio.com— — “For many CIOs, the budget story has not been a happy one these last several years. The economic downturn that followed the dotcom meltdown, 9/11 and the high-profile accounting scandals that led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act…”
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Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology
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“There are three categories of IT, each of which provides different organizational capabilities–and demands very different kinds of management interventions.”
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IT/Finance Alignment: A Boon for Strategy, but Will the Trend Continue?
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “In today’s market, where intense competition drives companies to reduce their business cycles and react faster, the interaction between Information Technology and Finance continues to gain importance, says David Wessels, an adjunct professor of finance at Wharton.”
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Outsourcing: Beyond Bangalore
businessweek.com— — “After 10 months of working with software developers in Bangalore, India, Bill Wood was ready to call it quits.”
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Five Mindsets for Retaining IT Staff
misqe.org— — “Since the late 1990s, the retention of IT staff has been a major concern to IT leaders. This article presents five “mindsets” that describe five different profiles of HR retention practices found in IT organizations.”
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IT in 2010: The Next Frontier
misqe.org— — “In 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005, the authors held focus groups with IT leaders from about 15 companies, asking the question, “What will the IT organization look like five years from now?”
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State of the CIO - The Changing CIO Role
cio.com— — “In the very first “State of the CIO” special issue, published in 2002, we asked several knowledgeable observers to speculate on the future of the CIO role.”
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The End of Corporate Computing
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“Information technology is undergoing an inexorable shift from being an asset that companies own - in the form of computers, software and myriad related components -to being a service that they purchase from utility providers.” -
Information Technology and the Board of Directors
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“Ever since the Y2K scare, boards have grown increasingly nervous about corporate dependence on information technology.”
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Information Orientation: People, Technology and the Bottom Line
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“Information technology improves business performance only if combined with competent
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One Size Fits One: Tailoring Technology to Consumer Needs
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “While a number of commentators these days suggest that the web could soon make newspapers, magazines and TV obsolete, Jeff Weiner, senior vice president for search and marketplace at Yahoo!, doesn’t buy it.”
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Understanding an Organization's View of the CIO: The Role of Assumptions about IT
misqe.org— — “Research in 31 departments of two large insurance companies revealed five underlying assumptions that impact the CIO’s ability to provide an effective, influential, senior executive role.”
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IT Governance is Key to Managing Expectations
itstrategycenter.com— — “To prevent a boardroom tug-of-war over IT resources, CIOs need a new approach.”