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How to Optimally Align IT with Your Business Processes?

Strategy Driven

IT is an important subject for any organization and it becomes increasingly interwoven with business operations. Structuring business information is also referred to as enterprise architecture. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value? IT should be connected to a functional process in the organization.

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The CIO Paradox: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries Accountability versus Ownership “Be yourself [period] Everyone else is taken” Bibliomotion CIO Career Path Corporate Board Cost versus Innovation David C.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

The Future of Operations. At a time when the customer end of the business model seems to be getting all the attention, executives must not neglect the equally important operations back end. This will inevitably have a significant impact on operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Improving Operational Efficiency.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Lean "senseis" (teachers) say strategy deployment, executives as coaches, and front-line problem-solving sustain improvement. BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement.