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- Business-IT Alignment: Mapping Your Organization's Course
- Figuring out an appropriate business-IT alignment path can be made easier with the Strategic Alignment Model as part of your toolkit. The model helps executives to unearth strategic business opportunities that call for an integral IT strategy and to focus both on specific domains of strategic choices and on relationships...
- Tags: Business Opportunity, Information Technology, Domain, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 1999-12-10
- Alignment Is Not Just for Tires (Science and Art of IT and Business Alignment)
- Misalignment causes companies a lot of money in opportunity costs and wasted investments. In the process of aligning your IT portfolio with business goals, you may uncover strategic opportunities in areas that you had never thought of before. Exercise of attempting alignment prepares the executive for a more efficient IT...
- Tags: Alignment, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-06-11
- Improve the Event Resolution Process
- This paper provides business professionals with a brief introduction to the strategic benefits associated with an effective alignment between IT services and the business processes IT supports. In order to succeed in this complicated initiative, mobile IT personnel must be enabled to perform their duties from remote locations via multiple...
- Tags: Business Process, Alignment, Information Technology, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2006-09-20
- Information Lifecycle Management Best Practices in Business/IT Alignment
- Information Lifecycle Management ILM is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. Managing based on business value requires alignment between the business and IT. This paper describes a process for achieving business/IT alignment in support of an ILM strategy. The...
- Tags: Strategy, Alignment, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Process Improvement, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Manage IT From a Business Perspective: Integrate and Automate Best Practices From the Latest ITIL Book
- One of the biggest challenges is maintaining alignment of IS services with business requirements. Another challenge is maintaining alignment of various internal groups. When trying to understand the business perspective approach, several topics are especially noteworthy, including - open communication, business value of IT, role of IT in the business...
- Tags: Information Technology, Best Practice, ITIL, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-04-25
- IT-Business Alignment Cycle: Manage
- This webcast focuses on the Manage stage of the IT-Business Alignment Cycle. The webcast will take you through benefits of managing from the business perspective, as well as provide best practices.
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Webcast, It Management, Digital Media, It service Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Business Alignment - Working With Requirements
- Most IT projects fail. An insufficient understanding of the requirements that are driving the project causes most of these failures. Lack of understanding can have many causes - lack of communication with the user community is a common fault. Select Perspective has always emphasized the importance of gaining and maintaining...
- Tags: Requirement, Research & Development, Process Improvement, Business Operations, Quality
- White papers 2003-10-28
- IT Business Alignment Cycle: Model
- This webcast focuses on the Modeling stage of the IT-Business Alignment Cycle. The webcast will take you through business benefits of modeling, as well as provide best practices.
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Webcast, Information Technology, Modeling, Research & Development, It Management, Digital Media, Business Operations, It service Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Benchmarking Study Stage II: Routes to Value: An Actionable Approach to Business Service Management
- This complimentary Filigree Research benchmark study from BMC Software analyzes the state of IT-business alignment and IT maturity in 565 global IT organizations. Want to know how you compare? Download this report to learn how: -Organizations are performing against best practices -You can...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Benchmarking, Business Service Management, It Management, It service Management
- Case studies
- Performance Alignment - Accelerating Business Performance Through People Alignment
- Organizations invest enormous amounts of time and resources generating business strategies. These strategies are vital to success; however, they are worthless unless they are superbly executed. Without execution, business strategies become data collection exercises and operating plans transform into merely a numbers game. This session will focus on how organizations...
- Tags: Alignment, Performance, Organization, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
- IT strategic Alignment
- With all hug investment into IT the organizations complaining that they are not achieving any tangible return from IT investment what IT strategic alignment means and its components?!!Shall CIO’s consider aligning IT strategy with business strategies or shall IT strategies be intergraded into Business Strategies?Why and why not?
- Tags: niyaz baluch, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-02-22
- Brother Alignment
- Recently I staarted using my Brother MFC-3240C printer/scanner/copier/fax. For some reason it is out of alignment. I have run the self alignment process so many times that I have lost count. I contacted Brother and all they would tell me is to take it to be repaired by one of...
- Tags: cyngrigg@...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- Aligning IT and the Business: An In-Depth Look at Scoring, Selecting and Scheduling the Project Portfolio
- Making the right investment decision is the difference between business success and failure. Senior executives must seek tools to help balance efficiency, effectiveness, cost, and growth in concert with new investments. The BEN Alignment Engine allows the enterprise, presented with a choice of portfolio items, to hold the appropriate amount...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business Engine Corp., BEN Alignment Engine, Productivity, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Business - Technology Alignment: A Fundamental Consideration for ITSM Tool Selection
- IT Service Management ITSM is evolving as a crucial component in aligning Business and Technology. Implementing ITSM successfully requires appropriate technology support. While there is no shortage of technology toolsets in this space, selecting the toolset appropriate to your specific requirements and building a case to justify the investment is...
- Tags: Infosys Technologies Ltd., Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Operational Management and Monitoring of Business Processes in the SOA World
- Business-IT alignment projects have taken on many forms, from ERP implementations to the most recent attempts to optimize business processes through rationalization. In almost all cases, SOA has become the leading enablement methodology. The combination of HP OpenView SOA Manager and HP OpenView Business Process Insight provides customers with a...
- Tags: Business Process, Hewlett-Packard Co., Monitoring, SOA, Operational Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Web Services, Software
- White papers 2006-09-01
- IT Strategy Maps: A Tool For Strategic Alignment
- Aligning IT and business strategy remains the No. 1 or No. 2 business IT issue year after year. But no matter how much focus and attention this subject receives, little progress seems to be made. Forrester recommends that 1) firms start measuring strategic alignment as part of the "you can't...
- Tags: Alignment, Information Technology, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management
- Research reports 2005-11-21
- Alignment in action: Web site ranking jumps from 55th percentile to top 5% in less than a year
- Scott Lowe tells a great alignment story in which the IT department at Westminster College partnered with other business units to make the relaunch of the college's Web site a tremendous success. by Scott Lowe
- Tags: Web, Student, Web Site, Site, Scott Lowe, Westminster College, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Peregrine Service Alignment: Aligning IT Services With Department and Business Unit Needs
- After large IT organizations establish and gain firm control of their services, they face a tough new challenge: aligning IT activities with constantly changing department and business unit needs. To meet this challenge, IT must implement new, customer-focused service management processes that match resources to negotiated requirements, improve responsiveness to...
- Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Peregrine Systems Inc., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Business - Technical Alignment: A Fundamental Consideration for ITSM Tool Selection
- IT Service Management ITSM is evolving as a crucial component in aligning Business and Technology. Implementing ITSM successfully requires appropriate technology support. While there is no shortage of technology toolsets in this space, selecting the toolset appropriate to your specific requirements and building a case to justify the investment is...
- Tags: Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-01-01
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