Completed Project
Structuring Global IT Organizations
This project will create a practical framework to assist CIOs to craft an effective and efficient global IT organization.
The framework indicates changes that can be made, where and how they will add value in individual organizations, and how the selected changes can be implemented.
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Final Report
Structuring Global IT Organizations
22 Jul 2004 | Position Paper
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)