IT Strategy

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THE FUNDAMENTALS OF IT STRATEGY 6.1 Laying the Groundwork for Transformation In 1993, Michael Hammer and James Champy published a ground-breaking book titled Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. Their book sought to disrupt many management principles current at the time. They dared executives to think outside the box

Additionally, IT must sharpen its pencil as it finds ways to identify non-value-added activities and drive out costs. IT must optimize its budget and assist other departments with analytics to help reduce their costs as well.

6.2 What is an IT Strategy? What, then, is an IT Strategy? Simply put, an IT Strategy is the comprehensive bundle of people, processes and technology that will enable the achievement of IT’s mission.

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Successful CIOs demonstrate they view their IT shop as more than just a service organization. They are effective at positioning IT as a partner in the strategic success of a business.

What matters in reengineering is how we want to organize work today, given the demands of today’s markets and the power of today’s technologies.

This point is controversial in many enterprises because standardization sounds like the imposition of restrictions such as which devices or applications to use. Standardization is indeed restrictive. It is restrictive by design. Supporting every conceivable option creates an impractical burden. Moreover, supporting anything and everything would hin

Sharpen Sharpen is the next responsibility of the IT organization. The CIO must look for ways to sharpen the enterprise. This sharpening takes two forms: insight and cost.