Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
In 2004, Symantec, a powerhouse in the security software market, merged with Veritas, a leader in enterprise storage management software. The $13.5 billion deal (the largest in the IT industry to date) promised to unify data security with data storage, creating a series of holistic products that ensured the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data…
by Faisal Hoque of BTM Corporation Change comes slower in the public sector and government is generally 10 to 15 years behind the private sector in its use of enabling technologies. President Barack Obama speaks often of the “immense transformative power of technology and innovation” and how they can improve the lives of Americans. Old…
Moving to the cloud Deciding to move to the cloud and using it wisely will require the creation of architectures of the enterprise, both its current and future desired states. This is known as a strategic enterprise architecture (SEA). An SEA is a story of what the organization is trying to accomplish and how. It…
by Faisal Hoque of BTM Corporation It’s nearly impossible to pick up a technology magazine or sit through a strategy meeting without encountering a reference to what some consider the next and greatest wave in enterprise computing: “The Cloud.” “Cloud” is a fitting term for something shrouded in mystery and hard to grasp. We’re not…
Business technology executives have different notions about what comprises a technology strategy. Most of these notions are wrong. For some, it means high-level summary statements about the direction of technology. For others, it consists of a tactical set of plans around a major application suite, such as an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. These…
Apple didn’t invent the personal computer. Instead, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak borrowed and adapted innovative concepts from others and mashed them up with ideas from within. Everything Apple did, from its auspicious beginnings in the late 1970s pairing a ho-hum Apple II computer with a third-party spreadsheet application called VisiCalc has been successful because…
Regardless of its size, one of the keys components of strategic investment management in any organization is portfolio and program management (PPM). PPM provides enterprise-wide focus on defining, gathering, categorizing, analyzing, and monitoring information on corporate assets and activity as they relate to technology implementation and management. PPM offers top managers a centralized and balanced…
As companies become increasingly more complex and, simultaneously, more integrated, the need for additional cross collaboration and more effective leveraging of the resources at their disposal is becoming increasingly significant. The shared services organization (SSO) concept can help because it consolidates support operations into a service-oriented organizational unit and can substantially improve operating efficiencies by…
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Building a company that is structured and organized to continuously transform itself as opportunities and threats appear is somewhat of an urban legend these days. This nirvana-like company repeatedly maintains three characteristics: 1. Ongoing assessment of activities: eliminating those that don’t serve the core business strategy; 2. Continual refinement of activities for greater efficiency and…