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How to Fix IT Planning

December 17, 2009

In response to the last post on the sad state of IT planning, one commenter noted: This planning is deeply flawed, even if you “fix” it as described. An effective organization is not a collection of competing interests, and IT is not a resource to be divvied up. Where is the organization’s overall strategy and goals in this scenario? How will organization-wide improvement occur when projects are isolated into departmental silos? These are all good ...

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IT Planning is Broken

December 9, 2009

Think back a few months.  It’s August and you are starting to marshal the troops for the annual pilgrimage to the mecca known as the annual IT budget.  You arm each of the IT leaders with a template, spreadsheet, and other tools with which they will collect the requests from the various business areas – customer segments, product businesses and corporate functions.  Depending on your organization, you may also start collecting some sizing data for ...

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