Resources should be allocated to those activities that most directly influence a company's strategic and operational effectiveness. By managing to improve those effectiveness factors (the causes) through IT, we can contribute to the company's future financial performance. By prioritizing, aligning, planning, and measuring IT's performance with strategic and operational effectiveness as the focus, we can improve the bottom-line impact of IT and communicate it to the enterprise. How should companies respond to this issue? In two ways:
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Allocating Resources for Strategic and Operational Effectiveness
Posted January 1, 2004 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review
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Bob Benson applies more than 40 years of academic and corporate experience to assist companies and government agencies in understanding the business value of IT, strategic and financial IT management, strategic IT planning, effective IT application development, and IT governance. He has written more than 100 Cutter Consortium Advisors on business technology strategy and IT governance as well as additional Executive Reports, Updates, and Cutter… Read More
Tom Bugnitz's specialties include business and organization transformation through information systems, information systems organization management, technology planning, the impact of new and emerging technologies, the impact of technology on business strategies, information systems operations, strategic systems applications, and leadership for executives.
Mr. Bugnitz has lectured widely on these subjects and has codeveloped methodologies in… Read More
Bill Walton's areas of special interest and expertise include performance measurement, integrated strategic planning, IT/business value, organizational change management, and technology driven change. Previously, Mr. Walton spent 17 years with Gartner Group and Real Decisions, where he was responsible for the development of several innovative IT measurement services and their associated analytical methods. Most recently, Mr. Walton was involved… Read More
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