From Business Strategy to IT Action

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From Business Strategy to IT Action

• Chapter 1
• Define The Goals

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Goals Are The Key

• this text focuses on right results and right
  decisions
• right results are controlling costs while
  improving the impact to the firms profits
• right decisions provide better IT investment
  choices, better choices among alternatives,
  reducing/removing poor performing IT, more
  attention to well performing IT

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• previous slides are apple pie, look to Exhibit
  1.1 in the text for clarity
• Murphys Law doesnt apply but Moores Law does

Cost
Impact on Profit
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• But? How does Moores Law account for the rise
  in the non-equipment side of IT / IS costs?

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Lights-on Versus Bottom-line Impact

• jargon, trying to get at the fact that most IT /
  IS costs (70-80) are everyday costs that may be
  for systems critical to the success of the
  organization
• 20-30 make profits jump
• Where should an organization put its effort?

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Align IT Goals/Strategy to Firm Goals/Strategy

• not as easy as the text makes it sounds
• what impediments have you found during your
  career to aligning IT with the firm?

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Recent Twists

• the firms strategic demand for IT / IS drives
  what IT /IS supplies
• IT / IS anticipates innovation
• prioritize projects based on strategic goals
• alignment of projects with strategic goals
• measure performance
• the last 3 require that resources be moved to and
  from existing projects