Business-IT Strategies Resource Center
Guidance for optimizing your IT investments, avoiding IT strategies that fail to support your business objectives, and leveraging IT for competitive advantage. Learn more...
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Service Orientation: The Cultural Dimension
by Paul Allen
This Executive Report is the third in a series that aims to guide organizations through the challenges they face on the way to service orientation. The previous two reports focused largely on the methodological requirements for business process management, service-oriented architecture, and service-oriented management. We now focus on the key cultural challenges involved in achieving a holistic approach. In particular, we look at the central role of service-level management in making an effective transition to service orientation.
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Commercializing Technology
by Steve Andriole
This Executive Update outlines a methodology developed by me and my colleagues to help assess the commercial potential of specific technologies. It involves four steps toward developing a plan for the exploitation of alternative technology opportunities....
The Mythical Business Case -- Part 3: Tools that May Make Us Smarter
by Borys Stokalski
In my previous Advisors in this series, I put forward a hypothesis that the growth of uncertainty in modern business changes the rationale of IT investment decisions from a thorough business case analysis to simplifying heuristics such as "flocking" or "underpromise/overdeliver." In this Advisor, which concludes this short series on business case, I would like to sketch an answer to the following questions: are heuristics good or bad, and how can we improve our ways of dealing with uncertainty?
Maximizing IT's Bottom-Line Impact: From Business Strategy to IT Action
by Bob Benson
In this Cutter Consortium Summit keynote presentation, Bob Benson will show you how to adopt and implement principles and practices for planning new IT investments, controlling the costs of existing IT activities, and assessing their business impact
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