Tarek Hoteit: IT Must Tell Its Story Better to Enable Business Success
Technology mistakes often happen when IT doesn’t understand the business and vice versa. Future-proofing the business with the right technology investments will help align IT with business priorities over the short and long term. "Without long-term thinking, whatever...
Tara Bucchi: Communication and Empowerment Are Essential for IT Alignment
IT teams need a certain amount of decision-making authority to quickly accomplish organizational goals. With an enterprise view of everything going on in the organization, IT can create and maintain alignment with business priorities. "If your employees don’t...
Scott Wu: To Overcome Mistakes, IT Teams Must Think Big
IT leaders need to take a big picture view when it comes to the role of the IT organization in supporting businessgrowth. Working backwards from the desired result is an effective way to ensure successful IT outcomes. Being able to communicate their ‘why’ to the...
Samantha Williams: Transparency and Trust Are Key to IT Alignment
IT leaders must establish a long-term vision to successfully align their teams with organizational priorities. IT must practice effective demand management and resource planning to stay on track with its goals. "If you’re four or five layers removed from the C...
Keith Blizard: Begin with the Vision. Aligning IT with the Business
IT leaders must establish a long-term vision to successfully align their teamswith organizational priorities. IT must practice effective demand management and resource planning to stay on track with its...
Justin Brown: Successful IT Alignment Begins with Your IT Team
IT teams still over-rely on subject matter expertise and, as a result, lack the business mindset required to properly align with the business. When transitioning to a service management model, take extra care to move the right people into productmanagement roles. "We...
Curt Cooper: Humility and Receptiveness Are Key to Successful IT Leadership
When IT leaders fail to seek the input and expertise of their staff, they may struggle to adopt best strategies or retain talented employees. IT leaders should show their teams how their contributions support organizational goals and continually seek feedback on...
Ashley Bard: Effective Communication Is Key to Aligning IT with the Business
A centralized view of IT projects, for example in a service managementdashboard, can help IT better align with business priorities. IT leaders can also leverage the data in these dashboards to raise the baron the customer service they provide. "As an organization, you...
Workfront: 9 Experts on How to Align IT’s Work to Company Strategy
The book includes insights from the following experts: Ashley Bard, AdventHealth, IT Director, Enterprise Care Navigation and Telehealth Technologies, Read the article >> Curt Cooper, Radiology Partners, IT Director and Service Leader, Networking and Physical...
Konrad Fellmann: Trust Is Not Enough. You Have to Verify
Konrad Fellmann, Cubic,Chief Information Security Officer Vendor questionnaires about security practices should require written explanations of securitypractices so that you can make judgements about whether the people responding to thosequestions actually know what...
