Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
If you want to get your team to actually implement your IT strategy, key initiative or change agenda, watch out for the following: Lack of Clarity – Everyone is clear on the big picture, but really fuzzy about what specific actions to take, what projects to prioritize and what things to measure. They might be…
Brace yourself. Before the month is out, they will be knocking at your door, insisting that Apple’s iPad tablet―for sale on or about April 3 (pre-orders started March 12 at 5:30 pm PST)―is just the gadget that will solve a multitude of IT problems while, simultaneously, giving your IT strategy a leg up . It…
There is a service value chain in which the customer role specifies and funds, the user role consumes, and a producer role fulfills. The term “user” describes the recipient of the benefits a service facilitates. User is a role that interacts with and consumes the service defined and paid for by a “customer” role. In…
No investments can be effective in the long term without consideration of risk. Business risks can be both internal to the firm, such as rolling out an inadequately tested system, as well as environmental, in the form of an unanticipated natural disaster. This creates a challenge for business and technology executives in that while the…