The Live 3rd Rail! Recently, a colleague said to me about a client, “It’s time to raise the subject of their IT funding model. The current model is causing all sorts of dysfunctional behaviors!” My response was, “You are right – but I really don’t want to go there just yet. I don’t think they’re [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Management | Tagged: Business model, funding, IT funding, IT governance, IT infrastructure | 2 Comments »
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 »
I’ve posted recently about Program Management – mainly in response to a reader’s question about how to group projects into programs. Her question, in turn, was in response to one of my most popular posts on the distinctions between Project, Program and Portfolio Management. IT Portfolio Management Matters! I’m delighted that my old post on [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, IT Maturity, Portfolio Management | Tagged: business strategy, business value, Business-IT Governance, Business-IT Maturity, Business-IT Maturity Model, IT infrastructure, IT Maturity, IT portfolio, Portfolio Management, program management, project management, value realization | 1 Comment »
How should you treat IT infrastructure investments in a recession? I was listening to an interesting piece that got me thinking about this question on NPR this morning titled “Obama’s ‘Big Fix,’ And Investment Deficit Disorder.” Renee Montagne interviewed New York Times columnist David Leonhardt about his January 27 article, “The Big Fix.“ Determining IT Infrastructure [...]
Filed under: Business-IT Governance, IT Infrastructure, IT Management, Portfolio Management | Tagged: Architecture, business governance, Business-IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture, IT governance, IT infrastructure, Portfolio Management | 1 Comment »
I liked this post by Navi Radjou on “Why Indian CIOs Excel at Driving Business Innovation“. Navi suggests two reasons for this proclivity for IT-driven innovation: 1. Indian CIOs are obsessed with IT/business alignment. 2. Indian CIOs are effective at orchestrating innovation networks. While I don’t disagree with these factors, the research we recently completed [...]
Filed under: IT Infrastructure, IT Maturity, Supply Maturity | Tagged: Indian CIO's, innovation, IT infrastructure | 3 Comments »
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