Posted on January 5, 2010 by itorganization2017
Just about everyone has become attuned over the last few years to the concept of sustainability. Except, it seems, when it comes to software practices. In most IT environments, by far the largest chunk of costs associated with a given piece of software, surface after it is initially delivered. That is true of purchased packages, [...]
Filed under: IT Maturity | Tagged: Add new tag, Agile software development, Architecture, business case, Business-IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture, IT funding, Programming, Service-oriented architecture, Sustainability | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 27, 2009 by itorganization2017
Regular readers will know that from time to time I refer to research by Peter Weill, Chairman & Senior Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management. I’ve had the privilege of knowing Dr. Weill for many years, and having collaborated with him on several multi-company research initiatives. [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Demand Maturity, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity, Key Frameworks, Portfolio Management | Tagged: Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business-IT Maturity, IT funding, value realization, IT governance, MIT Sloan School of Management | 9 Comments »
Posted on April 15, 2009 by itorganization2017
Dion Hinchcliffe had a superb post on Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0. The post cites several authoritative and useful sources on the subject. It also hypothesizes several reasons for the mostly “wait and see” attitude currently taken by most IT leaders and business managers. But I mainly want to focus on the business case [...]
Filed under: IT Management, Next Generation Enterprise, Next Generation IT, Web 2.0 | Tagged: business value, Enterprise 2.0, IT funding, Next Generation Enterprise, value realization, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »
Posted on April 13, 2009 by itorganization2017
I’ve had this IT funding fantasy for years (I know, it’s really sad that my more exciting fantasies are to do with IT funding scenarios!) Supposing the CIO had to do a fund drive every year or every six months the way our local National Public Radio stations had to operate in order to fund [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, Portfolio Management | Tagged: business value, IT funding, IT infrastructure, IT innovation, IT leadership, IT portfolio, Portfolio Management, value realization | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 23, 2008 by itorganization2017
There was a piece on National Public Radio this morning that got me thinking about IT infrastructure funding. I think this is especially relevant as companies consider Web 2.0 technologies and ask the inevitable question – “What’s the value proposition?” It’s a great question, unless that question gets morphed (as it so often does) into [...]
Filed under: IS Management, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity, Web 2.0 | Tagged: IT funding, IT infrastructure, justifying IT investments, real options | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 1, 2008 by itorganization2017
I was in an interesting discussion with one of my consulting clients recently. I was with a group of IT managers responsible for their firm’s shared IT assets. This is a large, global enterprise that has been on an aggressive journey over the last 5 years to transform business-IT maturity. By any measure, they have been [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity, Key Frameworks, Next Generation Enterprise, Next Generation IT | Tagged: IT funding, IT infrastructure, ITIL, Next Generation Enterprise, Platform, Product management, Service Management | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 31, 2007 by itorganization2017
Some suggestions for IT leaders who are determined to drive up the business value and impact of Information Technology during 2008: I resolve to be more effective in raising awareness of the potential for information technology to drive business growth. I will bring ‘marketing thinking’ to my IT organization, and focus on improving our [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, Demand Maturity, IS Management, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity, Next Generation Enterprise, Next Generation IT | Tagged: collaboration, Design Thinking, IT Brand, IT funding, IT innovation, IT talent, Next Generation Enterprise, Next Generation IT, SaaS, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 25, 2007 by itorganization2017
Another common sticking point that shows up in IT funding approaches in Level 2is the “stealth infrastructure” trap. The logic (or illogic!) behind this is, “The business does not understand all this infrastructure stuff (or plug in your enterprise-wide IT improvement initiative du jour – e.g., SOA, Enterprise Architecture) so we will squirrel away funds [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2007 by itorganization2017
One of the more intractable sticking points on the journey to Level 3 Business-IT Maturity is in the IT funding model – the ways that IT prices its products and services, and recovers its costs (and, it a profit center, covers its margin). Life as a consultant is tough. I’m not complaining, but we have [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Management, IT Maturity | Tagged: IT funding, IT infrastructure | 1 Comment »
