Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Neil Saward and Deepak Bharathan of PA Consulting Group What top trends in IT are in store for 2012? Well, expect a number of trends that have emerged over the last few years, such as cloud, mobility, enterprise social media, the “Internet of things” and Big Data, to continue to gain traction with IT…
by Derek Lonsdale, Nilesh Chandra and Chris Gallacher of PA Consulting – The IT function exists to support the business in achieving competitive advantage. However, many business users often see IT merely as a barrier to their initiatives; a function that over-spends and under-delivers. In order to foster a better relationship with the business, IT…
Much has been said and written about the gap between IT and business and the need for IT to understand business requirements. However, many IT executives try to bridge that gap by aligning IT’s capabilities with the direct, yet sometimes conflicting, requirements from various business functions across the organization. This is a narrow view of…
In a global survey of CIOs undertaken by Harvey Nash and PA Consulting Group, 71 percent of participants revealed their roles were becoming more strategic and, for the first time since the survey began in 1998, more than half said that they sit on the operational boards for their co companies. Moreover the 2010 CIO…