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How Do You Measure Your IT Portfolio?

April 23, 2010
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Guest Post by Rafael Burde, Niket Desai & Drew Gilliam Diamond Management & Technology Consultants We would like to share our recent experiences in designing and building a dashboard focused on the $600M discretionary portion of our client’s IT budget.  The company recently merged two IT groups with similar measurement and tracking functions into one they called “Portfolio and Program Management.”  Unfortunately, this combination created a pile of quality and consistency issues that produced data ...

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CIO Leadership Stories – Learning to Learn

March 22, 2010

My family and I just returned from a week long spring break trip to Colorado.  I’m very thankful for the opportunity to take a long break, as it’s great to spend that much time with family and friends, and it is also a good recharge.  Also, several hours on ski lifts provide some good thinking time.  This is the first of three leadership stories I’ve been reflecting on in the brisk mountain air.  I hope ...

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Does the CIO Control IT Spending?

January 29, 2010

At Diamond, we are in the early stages of analyzing survey data from our 2010 Diamond Digital IQ study, a multi-industry study of the strategic use of IT.  The respondents are equally distributed between business and IT leaders. For more details on what to expect, have a look at the DDIQ results from the last two years and a summary published by CIO Insight. To whet your appetites, I wanted to share one of the ...

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A Resurgence of Portfolio Management?

January 21, 2010
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by Chris Curran and Jim Quick Portfolio management was all the rage 5-6 years ago, driven in part by some good management thinking from people like Peter Weill at MIT CISR and Dr. Howard Rubin and in part by some software tool vendors.  Back then, most organizations added some kind of portfolio thinking or at least dabbled with it.  While most of the interest seemed to be in the IT organization, some organizations actually drove ...

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The 4 Types of CIO Dashboards

June 15, 2009

Read Part I of the Building a CIO Dashboard Series I think the biggest challenge in building a meaningful CIO dashboard lies in the question of what to measure.  As my partner Jim Quick says it’s either feast or famine when it comes to measuring IT.  You either have so much data you don’t know where to focus or you are paralyzed by the idea of figuring this out. In keeping with the best iterative ...

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