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70 Management of IT Articles
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Why Governance Matters
cioinsight.com— — “Good IT governance is the secret weapon of effective CIOs and agile organizations – but it has to be done right.”
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In Praise of Walls
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“In recent years, a postcompany school of business experts has argued that leaps in information technology have made possible a new world of seamless collaboration among businesses, one that will bring enormous gains in efficiency and flexibility.”
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Getting IT Right
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“Modern information technology started four decades ago, yet in most major corporations, IT remains an expensive mess.”
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Do You Have Too Much IT?
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“This article discusses the principles of information technology management employed by Inditex Group, a clothing manufacturer and retailer based in northwestern Spain.”
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Best Practices in IT Portfolio Management
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“Most organizations struggle to demonstrate business gains from investments in information technology. New research reveals how to meet the challenges of IT portfolio management to deliver tangible results.”
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Information Technology: Value Creator or Commodity?
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “Only a few years ago, companies put a high priority on coming up with innovations in information technology.”
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Bringing Professionals on Board: Lessons on Executing IT-enabled Organizational Transformation
misqe.org— — “IT-enabled organizational change has not always succeeded. But this paper traces a successful case ¨C the Gemini project ¨C at the University of Illinois Medical Center (UIMC), a leading public healthcare institution in the United States.”
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IT Governance on One Page
mitsloan.mit.edu— — “As firms strive to generate value from information technology (IT), managers are increasingly aware that IT-related decisions and behaviors must be aligned with organizational performance goals.”
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Don't Just Lead, Govern: How Top Performing Firms Govern IT
misqe.org— — “An analysis of governance models from studying more than 250 enterprises in 23 countries. Highlights governance models for top performers. Provides a case study of State Street Corporation.”
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Realizing the Business Value of Information Technology Investments: An Organizational Process
misqe.org— — “Provides a framework to conceive and implement IT investment payoff and measure the actual outcomes. Includes a case study of the Holy Cross Health System.”
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IT Infrastructure: Does Your Infrastructure Support Your Strategy?
cioinsight.com— — “One out of every five dollars spent on IT is being spent on infrastructure, and it appears to be money well spent. CIO Insight surveyed 561 IT executives and a large majority express satisfaction with the flexibility of their IT infrastructure.”
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What's the Business Payoff of Infrastructure?
cioinsight.com— — “In 1997, David Kronick, Vice President and CIO of CD&L Inc., a $175 million distribution and logistics company based in Hackensack, N.J., went to his CEO and asked for money to beef up the company’s infrastructure—a legacy of 11 independent firms.”
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The Digital Transformation of Traditional Businesses
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“The article presents a systematic framework that identifies the different drivers that determine the competitive advantage of deploying new information technologies such as the Internet, mobile communications and broadband networks in the United States.”
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IT Doesn't Matter
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“As information technology has grown in power and ubiquity, companies have come to view it as ever more critical to their success; their heavy spending on hardware and software clearly reflects that assumption.”
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When Too Much IT Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
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“Rather than trying to apply an exhaustive IT implementation checklist, executives should focus on identifying the likely pitfalls for the specific project at hand.”
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IT-enabled Business Change: An Approach to Understanding and Managing Risk
misqe.org— — “T projects aimed at enabling business change have become larger and more critical in recent years. But despite improved technical functionality and reliability, there are persistent project overruns, delays, and downright failures.”
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MIT's Weill on Leveraging Infrastructure
cioinsight.com— — “Peter Weill, the director of the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, says IT infrastructure is the foundation on which all e-business depends.”
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The dynamic synchronization of strategy and information technology
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“A rigid information-technology infrastructure will stymie even the best strategic initiatives, making it difficult to introduce change in cost- and time-efficient ways.”
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Building IT Infrastructure for Strategic Agility
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“Recent research indicates that managers at top-performing companies are able to identify the nature and array of initiatives they may need to implement, then determine the unique combination of IT service clusters necessary to create that agility.”
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The Evolution of the Organizational Architect
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“Organizations often relegate the job of aligning business needs and technology support to IT or operations, but with the strategic uncertainties of e-business, a separate coordinating role may be the only solution.”