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More About This Title The Technology Garden - Cultivating SustainableIT-Business Alignmenta
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This unique handbook will be broken into three sections:
The Laws– a distillation of best practice into a number of common sense laws that readers can apply directly to the domain of IT/Business alignment. These laws are backed up by real data, based on market researchTheir Application– the domains in which the laws can be appliedThe Guidelines– these are practical and teamed up with checklists based on how the laws are applied to specific areas. The checklists can be used for reviews and audits.The Technology Garden does not shy away from investigating the tensions between Business and IT departments, as these are key to resolving the alignment impasse.
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Dale Vile is Research Director at Freefrom Dynamics, a leading IT research and analysis company. He specializes in monitoring how IT industry developments map onto practical needs in the Enterprise and SMB mainstream. Prior to this role, Dale was responsible for setting up and directing a primary research over a 4-year period, serving the needs of blue chip clients such as IBM, Microsoft and Cisco. Dale’s career has involved a combination of technical, management and business development roles.
Neil Macehiter is a founder of Macehiter Ward-Dutton (MWD), an advisory form focused on the challenge of IT-business alignment. He has almost 20 years’ experience of the IT industry having worked in consulting, product and technology strategy roles. Neil joined Ovum consulting practice advising clients on a variety of IT strategy issues and then became the Director of Software Infrastructure Research. He has acted as an advisor to leading vendors such as IBM and Microsoft.
Neil Ward-Dutton is co-founder of MWD. With over 15-years’ experience of the IT industry – in a mixture of consulting and industry analysis roles. He started his career as a business analyst at ICI. A decade on, he was directing all the company’s technology research programs – but his ambitions turned to new pastures, and in early 2005 he founded MDW.
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1. Introduction.
2. The current realities of business and IT.
3. The IT organisation must get the basics right.
4. Create a common language.
5. Establish a peer relationship between business and IT.
6. Work towards coordinated goals and objectives.
7. Manage IT as a business-driven portfolio.
8. Foster relationships with key IT suppliers.
9. Applying the principles.
Appendix (Scorecards).
