Innovation vs. Optimization
In small businesses and organizations with either internal or outsourced IT services, there are three approaches or states of dealing with IT. In the first state, only basic IT service is done to...
View ArticleIT projects for the organization with operational IT
In my critique of Nicholas Carr's "IT Doesn't Matter," I made mention of choosing whether or not IT is strategic for an organization. In a sense, this choice is between strategic IT and operational IT....
View ArticlePutting IT management in its place
I originally wrote this for my column at bMighty.com, and so I am reposting it here because it is an important issue for IT management.Who do you think holds more sway over a business's strategy and...
View ArticleBusiness-IT alignment sanity check
Jason Hiner has posted a blog entry talking about business-IT alignment as being a concept behind the times. He argues that if a company is working on business-IT alignment they have already lost the...
View ArticleCentral IT, governance, and shifting the stack
This post is going to be somewhat of an open response to Ingbert's comment to my post on the IT@Illinois launch, and it will segue a bit into talking a bit about some aspects of a concept I've been...
View ArticleOperational IT vs. strategic IT in higher education
When I talk about IT in a corporate context, I believe there are two types of IT investments: operational investments and strategic investments. Operational investments are the types of things that...
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