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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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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

This mansion is renowned for its size, its architectural curiosities, and its lack of any master building plan. It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. The Future of Operations. Systems are implemented to support local initiatives. Insight Center.

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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., online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. Improving Operational Efficiency. DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g.,

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million.

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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business Review

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. But the company doesn’t see the bots lasting long.

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IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users

Harvard Business Review

It used to be that the IT department’s job was to define and standardize on a set of systems, processes, architectures and technologies for the organization. But how can an enterprise standardize on a dimension like mobile that’s always one hardware cycle away from changing dramatically?

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They try to institutionalize process improvement — that is, put in place the right mechanisms in their management systems so that their business processes don't become grossly unproductive in the future. But some companies realize they need to go beyond making episodic improvements.