IT directors ranked the importance of aligning IT and business objectives as high at 8.3 on a scale of one to 10, but the respondents only rated their success in achieving alignment at 6.2. Roger Hockaday, director at Packeteer, said that while IT...
All the same, research recently conducted by Quocirca on behalf of EMC suggests companies really do want to achieve the goal of aligning IT with the business. As for smaller companies, they are often far too busy getting on with their business...
In today's business world, it's critical that programme managers maintain a strategic overview, identifying synergies between projects, highlighting where resources can be pooled for efficiency and at the same time remaining acutely aware of the...
Aligning the objectives of the IT department with the often poorly articulated needs of the business. Graphs can be used to plot and monitor ROI versus risk for each project or programme, strategy maps can be used to show how each initiative...
Aligning IT spending tightly to strategic business objectives is the only way to ensure that IT delivers the returns the airline industry demands. IT and telecoms spending by airlines has fallen in the past year as the pressure to cut costs...
Aligning IT strategies to business objectives is one of the most fundamental factors for deriving value from technology. The historic tension and divide between business executives and the IT department is diminishing, according to a survey of CIOs...