Ensure a smooth transition to centralised IT delivery
It may be counter-intuitive, but done right, IT centralisation can save money and increase agility.
View ArticleMaking vendor relationships work
Managing vendor relationships effectively is essential to realising the expected monetary as well as operational benefits of sourcing.
View ArticleTo improve productivity, CIOs must focus on improving manager quality
Given the recent economic turmoil, employee engagement and discretionary effort dropped in many organisations.
View ArticleIs IT prepared for an M&A rebound?
M&A revival presents new opportunities and risks for organisations
View ArticleCan IT do more to challenge its business partners?
Despite considerable effort by IT functions to act as strategic partners to the rest of the organisation, business leaders and end users remain dissatisfied with IT’s ability to meet their needs
View ArticleFive shifts that will radically change IT value, ownership and role
In 2005, a survey conducted by the CIO Executive Board found that less than 25 per cent of business leaders rated their organisation’s IT function effective at delivering the capabilities they needed....
View ArticleBusiness relationship management – too much for one person?
Business liaisons need to become challengers, capable of shaping demand for technology, but there is a second structural challenge that CIOs must overcome
View ArticleCIOs focus their budgets on transformation and collaboration
The past few years have seen surprisingly healthy increases in IT spending, but the outlook for 2013 is more modest.
View ArticleA New Model for fast, efficient IT
Three years ago, CEB identified five trends that are rapidly reshaping IT
View ArticleGetting everyone on the same page with cloud
Based on analysis from 100 companies globally, it is expected that the vast majority of IT organisations will have – if they haven’t already – adopted SaaS-based HR and CRM solutions by the end of 2013.
View ArticleFour realities for the future of corporate IT
When CEB asked several thousand business leaders how much more employee productivity they needed to meet their goals, the average response was 20%. IT has always had an important role in driving...
View ArticleThree ways in which IT's role in innovation has changed
There is a lot of buzz about innovation in IT and more than a few articles urging CIOs try to become “chief innovation officers” to find it. However, the way companies find innovative business uses for...
View ArticleThe biggest misconceptions about shadow IT
Although much has been written aboust shadow IT, three big misconceptions prevail.
View ArticleWhy IT needs a climate change
IT teams face rapid change. Digitisation, innovation, and Big Data may be buzzwords, but they point to real upheavals in the way IT…
View ArticleThree roles that CIOs will be asked to take on next
The vast majority of business leaders' goals can only be achieved through the use of technology. In this environment, the functional…
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