These acquisitions will either add to the existing activities and be justified by the subsequent cost savings and efficiencies that will be available, or they will accelerate the expansion of the business into adjacent markets and technologies...
Boardroom executives now expect IT to become more externally focused and play a significant role in business growth, a shift that will accelerate during 2006 according to Gartner. But CIOs are still faced with having to do more with less and a...
Business alignment is a fallacy. Organisations do not want business alignment of IT because if it were achieved they would have to look beyond cost and really examine IT's potential for the business. There are some snide comments on responsiveness...
Each IT project goes through a 'project opportunity assessment' and must tick three boxes: alignment to business strategy, alignment to IT strategy and less than 18 months payback. Bandrowczak says this approach is about not only operational...
Or should they move into business units to get closer to internal customers and accelerate development? By centralising the supply organisation, the IT demand-supply model maintains the efficiencies necessary in applications development and the...
The jobs are due to go in admin, management and support operations in an effort to streamline the workforce to "improve responsiveness" and "remove duplication". In terms of infrastructure the company plans to accelerate its high speed data network...