- IT Governance – Finding the Right Approach for Your Firm
6 Mar 06 | Single Topic Reports
Few organizations have fully effective IT governance in place today, and few have a systematic approach. Effective strategies are anything but ´one size fits all´.
In the demanding new business environment driven by the Internet and the rise of Asia, business and IT both face new challenges. Uncomfortable choices must be faced and decisions made.
This report, based on research carried out with 26 major organizations in the US and Europe, shows how business can give IT the more specific direction it needs, and how the business can cooperate more both with IT and across business units.
- A Workbook for IT Governance
17 Apr 07 | Workbooks
Recent LEF research has shown that most firms expect a great deal from IT, but few are realizing the hoped-for benefits. Typically,the biggest single problem is with business management: it is not sufficiently engaged with IT, does not give IT specific enough direction, and does not exert the leadership required to make the right solutions happen on the ground. In short, strong business/IT governance is usually lacking.
The purpose of this workbook is to assist executives, both business and IT, to assess their current IT governance approach and process, to identify major weaknesses, and to plan needed changes. It does this by detailing 13 steps for you to work through, answering the questions and completing the exercises given.
- Practical Approaches for Managing Complexity | 9 Nov 2006
9 Nov 06 | Presentation
Good complexity delivers value that the customer will pay for, as in the case of an Apple iPod that is internally quite complicated, yet very easy to use. At the other extreme, complicated and redundant administrative procedures clearly reduce value for both supplier and customer, and can become a real drag on the enterprise. In between are situations, such as disparate product lines and sales/marketing organizations, where the value of complexity often depends on your point of view.
See event: Managing Business and IT Complexity – Aligning Diversity with Value (9 November 2006)
- Governing the Digital Enterprise - In a Period of Paradoxes
9 Nov 06 | Presentation
In today’s global marketplace, IT matters more than ever. Data flows inside and outside of the organization at the speed of light, as the bounds of the firm blur. Similarly, companies are facing a dizzying array of competitive IT-driven challenges and opportunities, including what to do about China, India, e-commerce, innovation, RFID, outsourcing, and Sarbanes-Oxley. This session will show how these issues set and shape the context for the way companies need to think about how they manage and use information technology.
See event: Managing Business and IT Complexity – Aligning Diversity with Value (9 November 2006)
- Governing the Digital Enterprise - In a Period of Paradoxes 11-08-06
8 Nov 06 | Presentation
Business/IT complexity seems almost certain to increase in the years ahead. In today’s globally competitive environment, businesses are becoming increasingly specialized, as they strive for unique forms of value-add. From an IT perspective, the emergence of software as a service, the rising importance of business intelligence, the increasing use of outside suppliers and the ongoing consumerization of information technology will result in much more diverse IT environments, many directly under the control of business units and employees.
See event: Managing Business and IT Complexity – Aligning Diversity with Value
- Practical Approaches for Managing Complexity
8 Nov 06 | Presentation
Good complexity delivers value that the customer will pay for, as in the case of an Apple iPod that is internally quite complicated, yet very easy to use. At the other extreme, complicated and redundant administrative procedures clearly reduce value for both supplier and customer, and can become a real drag on the enterprise. In between are situations, such as disparate product lines and sales/marketing organizations, where the value of complexity often depends on your point of view.
See event: Managing Business and IT Complexity – Aligning Diversity with Value (8 November 2006)
- Managing Business and IT Complexity
21 Sep 06 | Presentation
Good complexity delivers value that the customer will pay for, as in the case of an Apple iPod that is internally quite complicated, yet very easy to use. At the other extreme, complicated and redundant administrative procedures clearly reduce value for both supplier and customer, and can become a real drag on the enterprise. In between are situations, such as disparate product lines and sales/marketing organizations, where the value of complexity often depends on your point of view.
See event: Business & Technology Co-evolution – The Dynamics of 21st Century Economic Change
- Business and IT Co-evolution
20 Sep 06 | Presentation
Three great and highly intertwined forces are reshaping the 21st century business environment – technology, globalization, and the rise of China and India. Taken together, they are forever changing the way companies operate, knocking down the boundaries between industries, and presenting a whole new range of strategic possibilities. But how can we make sense of all of these changes, and what sort of business environment is likely to emerge? In this session, David Moschella presents our latest research and thinking regarding the co-evolution of business and IT, and the restructuring of today’s global economy.
See event: Business & Technology Co-evolution – The Dynamics of 21st Century Economic Change
- Practical Approaches for Managing Complexity July 2006
5 Jul 06 | Presentation
Good complexity delivers value that the customer will pay for, as in the case of an Apple iPod that is internally quite complicated, yet very easy to use. At the other extreme, complicated and redundant administrative procedures clearly reduce value for both supplier and customer, and can become a real drag on the enterprise. In between are situations, such as disparate product lines and sales/marketing organizations, where the value of complexity often depends on your point of view.
Kirt Mead presents an overall approach to thinking about business complexity, for identifying good and bad complexity in business, and for managing bad complexity down over time.
See event: Managing Business and IT Complexity – Aligning Diversity with Value - Managing Employee Empowerment - Part 2
5 Jul 06 | Presentation
Having always been interested in how technology disrupts existing business models, Gavin has recently been researching and sponsoring innovation projects which are driving the adoption of consumerization and web 2.0, and sharing this learning with a cross industry working group of peers from other organizations.
The consumerization of enterprise IT promises to introduce yet another layer of business and IT complexity as companies adopt a mix of public and private infrastructure and as employees experiment with a variety of ‘edge’ technologies. In this session, Gavin will describe how Norwich Union is managing to take advantage of these powerful new capabilities while reducing the many complexities and risks involved.
See event: Managing Business and IT Complexity – Aligning Diversity with Value