Business strategy white papers
CIOs must ensure that the IT department and systems constantly meet the demands of the business strategy. Perfect alignment between the IT department and the strategic direction of the business is critical to the success of an IT division. CIOs must devise and execute a strategy that fits seamlessly with the direction set out by the board for the entire organisation. CIOs are able to influence the corporate strategy through their understanding of how IT can drive strategic plans for the business.
Business strategy
Delivering a competitive advantage through IT
Intel | Published: 15:56 GMT, 07 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
Use IT to deliver business value
IT organisations share a common mission; to optimise investments and streamline operations to create value for themselves. Business value can be delivered in numerous ways. IT is used to enhance employee productivity, facilitate business growth, and to drive business efficiency and bottom line results.
A strategy for enterprise modernisation
Zylog | Published: 12:12 GMT, 07 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
A CIO's guide
As the enterprise becomes more or less effective so does IT. Enterprise effectiveness drives or creates the environment for IT to be effective. Only 1 in 10 CIO's perceive their IT organisation to be more effective than the enterprise. Because the enterprise and IT are so closely connected in this respect, CIO's can take steps to raise the effectiveness of both and in the process establish IT as part of the engine that drives enterprise success.
Let the bridge fall
TeamQuest | Published: 10:16 GMT, 03 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
As long as it falls on time
Different managers have different philosophies for project planning and scheduling, especially when it comes to meeting deadlines. But what if there was a way to improve risk management in relation to corporate projects?
ITIL version 3 and TeamQuest
TeamQuest | Published: 10:03 GMT, 03 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
Take your organisations to the next level
Although V2 was quite successful, there were a number of gaps and the focus was still more technological than business in nature. Many ITIL practitioners and contributors felt that although the second rendition of ITIL was a quantum leap from the initial offering, it still needed more focus on the business of IT and the services provided to the business. Integration of IT processes with business processes was thought desirable. ITIL V3 was introduced to meet these perceived needs.
A manager's guide to implementing capacity management
TeamQuest | Published: 09:48 GMT, 03 February 12 | www.cio.co.uk
Getting started
Although capacity management has been in existence in one form or another for over 40 years, only a minority of shops have chosen to implement it. With constantly lowering prices, many IT shops have chosen to throw hardware at performance and capacity problems rather than spend the time to manage what they have. In the past, that approach has worked, however times and management challenges have changed and costs increased; demanding a different approach. Capacity Management is one solution.
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