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Balancing Lopsided IT Governance

November 15, 2011
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Print PDF As you’ve probably heard, it’s happening again. Corporations are decentralizing IT and calling the role of the CIO into question. Between social networking, cloud computing and digital mobility, business units are demanding more than ever from IT. As IT struggles to keep pace with rapid innovation, business units are growing increasingly comfortable purchasing and deploying outside systems on their own. As a result, conditions are ripe for restructuring the relationship between business and ...

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5 IT Governance Attitudes Foreshadow Failure

May 7, 2009
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Print PDF After you have the organization following your core IT processes (more on that here), you are ready to add effective IT governance to increase productivity and alignment.  Before you do this, make sure that you squash any of these five attitudes that may exist in your teams that will implement governance – they will virtually eliminate any chances you have for success. “We are here to govern you” The primary goals of governance ...

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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?

May 5, 2009
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Print PDF by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1.  That the majority of new jobs are sourced through “weak ties,” not close relationships. (I never heard this before, but ...

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IT Governance: Does it Work?

April 14, 2009
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Print PDF My good friend Peter Weill, Chairman of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), defines IT governance as “specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the use of IT.” In a perfect system, desirable behavior would be the norm and governance would deal with the exceptions. Unfortunately, in many organizations, the reverse is true. Consider the results of a question from Diamond’s most recent Digital IQ survey asking ...

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