In the preceding posts, I discussed how a fully decentralized model affects views on alignment and how fully centralized IT organizations affect alignment . Now let’s examine how a federal model affects alignment between the business and IT. In a federal model, there is a central organizing group (corporate...

In my last post, I discussed how a fully decentralized model affects views on alignment , so now let's take a look at how a fully centralized model affects alignment. In a fully centralized organization, there is basically one central CIO with many direct lieutenants, and the whole IT organization...

To continue the conversation on aligning IT with the business, I’d like to dive deeper into the two sides of the issue that I raised in my previous post. To explore this topic further we need to look at the following dimensions How IT is organized within the business Economies of scale (e.g. Purchasing...

Aligning IT with the Business In the past 10 years of CIO surveys that I've seen, “align IT with the business” has been the number one challenge for IT. In a 2007 IDG survey of IT management at companies with an annual revenue of $250 million or more, 87 percent of U.S. respondents (75 percent globally...

Enterprise IT Management Perspectives: A 360° View Welcome to the EITM Perspectives blog. It’s fairly obvious from the title what this blog is meant to discuss. The perspectives relate to four major imperatives for EITM: 1) Align IT with the business 2) Managing IT costs 3) Improve service quality 4...