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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. But it need not be like this.

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

Harvard Business Review

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement. Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute.