Ask any CIO to name the Holy Grail of the IT executive, and he is likely to say “alignment.” In fact, last spring, our “State of the CIO 2003” survey found that CIOs cited aligning IT with business ...

Many IT professionals believe that alignment with the business is all about managing expectations. But the phrase “managing expectations” is ridiculous and should be stricken from CIOs’ lexicons. It ...

Tech Leaders: 5 Steps to Ensure Superior Alignment With Your Business and IT Strategies Your email has been sent Businesses are facing high competition and ever-changing market dynamics such as ...

Today’s businesses are faced with a mixture of challenges in the markets they operate in, including economic, social and political issues. Business thus has to remain flexible in these volatile ...

Leaders dedicate significant time and resources toward developing business growth plans, meticulously outlining strategies that will expand their customer base, product lines, sales channels or ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This is the fourth in an exclusive series of articles from Total Alignment authors Riaz Khadem and Linda Khadem titled “The Alignment ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This is the third in an exclusive series of articles from Total Alignment authors Riaz Khadem and Linda Khadem titled “The Alignment ...

In my interviews of CIOs, they have told me that connecting what IT is doing to business strategy remains their highest priority, even above things like improving technical orchestration and overall ...

Q Business-IT alignment has always been driven by examining business needs and aligning IT to meet those needs. In this Internet age, where a number of business processes are driven by technology, how ...