Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Despite the historical tendency for businesses to slow spending and weigh investment decisions more carefully during a recession, a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist, found that business decision-making is actually accelerating due to the recession. In today’s challenging business environment, the report…
IT’s alignment with the business is critical to the success of an organization. My experience as CIO of Mannatech, Inc., working with business executives to achieve results for our supply chain management project, confirmed this to me. Such alignment often entails the willingness of key leaders to collaborate and focus on the execution and delivery…
With the recent economic downturn, many IT organizations are increasingly aware of the need to partner with their customers and ensure they are delivering the right services at the right price. Service catalogs are a powerful tool for ensuring that the goals of your organization and its customers are aligned, while also providing greater visibility…
If there’s a fundamental mistake made by CIOs in dealing with CFOs it’s going into meetings talking CIO talk—clouds, SaaS, virtualization—and not getting that the CFO may not understand and, critically, may not care at all. A CFO’s primarily workplace deliverable is not staying on top of tech trends, it’s keeping the business solvent and…
IT executives have pinged and ponged from one organizational approach to another over the years, switching approaches when things get too out of hand. These constructs have ranged from highly centralized and staffed organizations (like Wal-Mart) that may have struggled to sustain early industry pace setting. For others, they tried highly decentralized organizations that then…