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Governing IT (look at this PWC perfect report ) is (and that is not new!) key for company performance: Strategic alignment is key , but clearly a subtle adaptive one, not too mechanistic... What are CEO feelings on that? Some new innovative ideas on this old alignment topic, like this definition of IT organizations as fitting into one of three categories, which called Solid Utility, Trusted Supplier, and Partner Player. McKinsey emphasizes on some conditions of success... All that ...
Principles and modalities to redefine the IT structure and the Information Systems A shared diagnosis * Growth, not mastered, of the IT budget - Atypical growth of the budget: + 55 % between 1998 and 2000 - Miss identification and appropriation of profits connected to the investments in information technologies - Miss control over the process of decision on the projects by the GM * Technical weaknesses - Insufficient coherence of the architecture of the information systems - ...
Some (very) partial information on Renault IS in 2001: http://www.renault.com/gb/accueil.htm What is Renault? Renault IT executive board A new CIO of Renault (Nissan/Renault alliance is not fully done at that time) is appointed in 2001 He has, after an analysis, presented his first feelings to the board (Renault IT executive board presentation) Let's mention some additional data of 2001 situation: - The applications developed in the 80's 90's, including SAP dynamic for ...
A lot of informations recently published on this theme. What are the "new" issues and opportunities for CIO's ? Let's take a quote from this one Ovum analysts say in their Summit Seven predictions. "Virtualization, service-oriented architecture, management automation and integrated workflow tools will increasingly be coupled with externally provided software-as-a-service (SaaS), utility computing, business process outsourcing and other network-hosted applications and ...
On a permanent never-achieved theme (alignment), some reemphasis on this key concept