Understanding the Governance Side of IT-Business Alignment

When Marilyn Carlson Nelson was CEO of Carlson Companies, the privately held hotel, restaurant, travel and marketing giant, she used technology strategically to expand the company. In fact, the company has invested more than a billion dollars in technology, a sum one would not expect for what doesn’t seem like a high-tech enterprise. “When I…

IT Project Management 101: 3 Teams, 1 Successful Outcome

As a business manager, what do you do when your IT team tells you a strategically important project can’t get done because there are too many other business critical projects ahead of it? Do you arbitrarily prioritize your project ahead of the others? Do you know what those other projects were going to do for…