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• Developing an IT Strategy for your Industry
  1 Aug 08 | Position Papers
  
  Historically, the IT industry has been what economists would describe as predominantly a horizontal business, as IT products and services have been used similarly and widely across just about every industry sector. Our industry’s leading hardware and software suppliers provide their products to a broad range of customers, just as the largest IT services firms tend to have substantial cross-industry footprints. On the customer side, IT organizations in different industries often face many similar infrastructure, personal productivity and back-office challenges, and it has always been relatively common for CIOs and other IT professionals to move from one industry sector to another.
• Enterprise Architecture in the Real World
  20 Nov 08 | Presentation
  
  

  Enterprise architecture should aim to provide the essential understanding of the business operating model:  how the business and IT capabilities of an enterprise are configured, interrelated and deployed in order to support what the organization is trying to achieve.  Today, enterprise architecture has become more critical to business success as developments in technology are enabling organizations to be more adaptive and ‘service based’. 

  See event:  Developing a Strategic Business/IT Architecture (20 November 2008)

• Business/IT Strategy in a Darkening Economic Climate
  20 Nov 08 | Presentation
  
  

  As IT continues to permeate just about every corner of the modern enterprise, it should not be surprising that business and IT strategies must converge.  Yet too often the business and industry-specific aspects of an IT strategy wind up subordinate to more generic systems and applications concerns.  Recent LEF research argues that this approach is becoming increasingly problematic, and that industry specific variations need to be more aggressively accounted for.  In this session, David presented the LEF process for developing an IT strategy for your industry, using our recently developed lead sector analysis framework.

  See event:  Developing a Strategic Business/IT Architecture (20 November 2008)

• Enterprise Architecture in the Real World
  18 Nov 08 | Presentation
  
  

  Enterprise architecture should aim to provide the essential understanding of the business operating model:  how the business and IT capabilities of an enterprise are configured, interrelated and deployed in order to support what the organization is trying to achieve.  Today, enterprise architecture has become more critical to business success as developments in technology are enabling organizations to be more adaptive and ‘service based’. 

  See event:  Developing a Business/IT Strategy and Architecture (18 November 2008)

• Business/IT Strategy in a Darkening Economic Climate
  18 Nov 08 | Presentation
  
  

  As IT continues to permeate just about every corner of the modern enterprise, it should not be surprising that business and IT strategies must converge.  Yet too often the business and industry-specific aspects of an IT strategy wind up subordinate to more generic systems and applications concerns.  Recent LEF research argues that this approach is becoming increasingly problematic, and that industry specific variations need to be more aggressively accounted for.  In this session, David will present the LEF process for developing an IT strategy for your industry, using our recently developed lead sector analysis framework.

  See event:  Developing a Business/IT Strategy and Architecture (18 November 2008)

   

• A Workbook for Developing a Business/IT Strategy
  7 Nov 07 | Workbooks
  
  

  From a wide range of available techniques to implement each step in the process, we have selected a few that are both simple in concept and proven in practice. The workbook also includes case studies to illustrate their use. Our goal is to provide an effective process that ensures that the necessary conversations with the business take place.