Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Does your organization have a high success rate in delivering IT projects? If the answer to this question is “No”, then it’s probably safe to assume that the project management maturity level within your organization is low. As a former CIO I know project management is one area that many CIO’s tend to take for…
As the financial crisis persists and companies snap up their peers at discount prices, they might be getting more than they bargained for. That’s because apart from the regulatory and financial issues, a merger or acquisition also involves a host of technology challenges. Just in the financial sector alone, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been…
It is a widely held belief that business analysts (BAs) must have a number of years experience in a domain they are to be discovering and documenting requirements in to be effective in that domain. It turns out that that assumption is usually false. An IAG study, Business Analyst Benchmark – 2008, identifies the following…
Psst. Want tips on how to persuade your organization’s CFO to green light an expensive IT project? Okay. Let’s start with a quiz and only those who pass get to read the tips (scout’s honor here): True or false? ▫ IT carries the day. (Dazzle the CFO with promises of IT glories and your funding…
One of the biggest credibility issues IT organizations face is the lack of cost/benefit visibility into IT spending. CIO’s tell me this is the main reason they feel like there’s a target on their back—the business needs to understand how they are spending the money and often it’s hard to say. Most IT organizations grow…
The role of IT has transformed from business supporter to business enabler to full-fledged business partner. This is reflected in ITIL v3, which places priority on managing IT services according to business needs. With this increased emphasis on alignment and communication between IT and the business, it is more important than ever that technically-proficient IT…