One might think that calculating return on investment would be a common tool for businesses to use to make capital investment decisions. Who could make an intellectual argument against determining…
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The evolving role of the IT leader
In previous decades, the role of many IT departments was understandably network-centric. IT departments were the keepers of information and systems, and they possessed IT knowledge that made them indispensable…
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How IT leaders turn IT conversations into business conversations
Information and technology are very broad components of every business. While there are strategic, operational and tactical elements of IT, people often think about technology in terms of products, hardware,…
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Business First: 4 Big Questions to Ask Before All Else
If your company has been using the same technology for years, it’s probably showing its age by now. You can’t get the reports you need. Your people complain frequently about…
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Don’t Let Strategy Become a 4 Letter Word
For many companies today, the term strategy seems to have gotten watered down, or even worse, become a four-letter word. As if, somehow, strategy is a bad thing. We hear…
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Effective IT Increases Corporate Valuation
Is technology adding to the value of your business, or decreasing it? That’s the question more and more CEOs and business valuation experts are asking today. For years, IT Due…
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4 Outcomes Of A Successful Change Management Strategy
Many organizations struggle to achieve the laudable goal of successfully facilitating change in an organization. Whether the change is an HR or IT initiative, often the key element that determines…
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3 Steps To Successful Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is most successful when thought of as a process for generating ideas for improvement and innovation and distilling those ideas down to funded projects. The key terms here…
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3 Reasons Growth Requires An IT Strategy
Assuming that you have an IT strategy, is it technology-centric or business-centric? In other words, what is driving your IT strategy? Do you have an IT plan that contributes to,…
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