- Structuring Global IT Organizations
22 Jul 04 | Position Papers
This paper identifies the adoption of appropriate IT organizational structures as a necessary precondition for IT effectiveness, and recommends methods to structure IT departments in global corporations.
Without minimizing the importance of culture, skills, processes, team work, personal relationships and informal networks, organization charts define the framework on which businesses are built.
They lay out the formal structures that channel employee efforts towards the firm’s best interests, and they set bounds on what can be achieved.
In this way, organization charts are to organizations what financial statements are to accounting: they may not say everything that needs to be said, but they say a lot and are widely understood.
See event: Structuring Global IT Organizations (2 November 2004)
- The Future of the IT Organization – A Research Perspective
11 Oct 05 | Presentation
In this introductory presentation, David explains the Leading Edge Forum’s approach to researching and assessing the future of the IT organization, and highlights our key overall findings.
We have identified five primary factors: changing business requirements, the balance between internal and external sourcing, the increasing consumerization of IT, the shift from a vertical to a horizontal service model, and the impact of new technologies. Each of these forces will be put into an integrated model of evolutionary and structural change.
See event: The Future of the IT Organization (27 - 28 Sep 2005)
- The Future of the IT Organization - Findings from the March 2005 Executive Forum
28 Jul 05 | Presentation
During the two-day Spring Executive Forum event, a number of forward thinking academics and researchers from around the world examined various aspects of the evolution of the corporate IT function. Alex Mayall summarizes key messages from sessions that included:
- understanding future business requirements
- integrating IT with key business functions
- developing strategies for agile infrastructures
- empowering a new generation of employees, most of whom have now become active consumers of technology in their own lives.
See event: The Future of the IT Organization - Findings from the March 2005 Executive Forum (28 Jul 2005) - The Future of the IT Organization-Findings from the March 2005 Executive Forum
28 Jun 05 | Presentation
During the two-day Spring Executive Forum event, a number of forward thinking academics and researchers from around the world examined various aspects of the evolution of the corporate IT function. Alex Mayall summarizes key messages from sessions that included:
- understanding future business requirements
- integrating IT with key business functions
- developing strategies for agile infrastructures
- empowering a new generation of employees, most of whom have now become active consumers of technology in their own lives.
See event: The Future of the IT Organization - Findings from the March 2005 Executive Forum (28 Jun 2005) - Structuring Global IT Organizations
23 Mar 05 | Presentation
Alex Mayall discusses factors that influence the organization of the IT function for global enterprises.
Drawing upon our past and recently completed research into the IT organizational structures adopted by a number of major multinational companies, he outlines a set of principles and methods that a company with global reach can apply for optimally structuring its IT function.
See event: Structuring Global IT Organizations
- Reengineering IT for Business Performance
17 Feb 05 | Presentation
In this session, Alex Mayall draws both on our research and case studies to illustrate in a practical sense how the IS function might be reengineered. Alex illustrates how organizations can start to gear themselves up for some of the major changes that David Moschella has shown will need to be addressed.
See event: The Future of the IT Organization (17 February 2005)
- Crafting IT Organisations to Serve Global Businesses
7 Sep 04 | Presentation
At this web conference, Alex Mayall discusses the prerequisites for successful IT in global organisations. He draws on past and our recently completed research on IT organisational structures.
Alex describes how to align IT with global business strategy, architecture, and structures. He then discusses the role of the 21st century global CIO, key IT management processes, how to determine where IT investments should be made in the global business, and how to manage resources for effectiveness and efficiency.
It offers a high-level view across this wide subject, with many references to the deeper detail that can be obtained from us.
This web conference will be valuable to IT managers charged with structuring and managing global IT who wish to hear the latest thinking on how best to achieve success.