How do you maximise the Value of IT to the Business? This is a question being asked by the CIO Executive Council. They have developed a IT Value Matrix that illustrates the principles and practices to essential to creating, identifying and communicating IT's value to the enterprise.

It can be downloaded at www.cioexecutivecouncil.com/it_value or below

ITValueMatrix (1953 KB)

Its "Enduring principles of IT" below are a good general guideline and tie in with our philosophy and approach at Bua Consulting:

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1. The primary goal of IT is to align with major enterprise objectives. Every technology initiative must be tied in a provable way with business value.
2. Because all major business initiatives are dependent upon technology, the CIO must have a voice at the table at which key business decisions are made.
3. With technology at the intersection of a business, the CIO has the responsibility to understand a business's complexities, influence executive peers, and present technology strategy in terms the business can understand.
4. Technology leaders are agents of change. Transition is our stable state.
5. Communication and relationship building are equally as important to IT leadership as technology skills.
6. Successful technology leadership must strike a balance between competing forces: Short v's long term value, technology v's business focus, leading v's enabling.
7. The Cio is responsible for cultivating technology leaership at all levels of the organisation. "

 

How do you maximise the Value of IT to the Business? This is a question being asked by the CIO Executive Council. They have developed a IT Value Matrix that illustrates the principles and practices to essential to creating, identifying and communicating IT's value to the enterprise.

It can be downloaded at www.cioexecutivecouncil.com/it_value or below

ITValueMatrix (1953 KB)

Its "Enduring principles of IT" below are a good general guideline and tie in with our philosophy and approach at Bua Consulting:

"

1. The primary goal of IT is to align with major enterprise objectives. Every technology initiative must be tied in a provable way with business value.
2. Because all major business initiatives are dependent upon technology, the CIO must have a voice at the table at which key business decisions are made.
3. With technology at the intersection of a business, the CIO has the responsibility to understand a business's complexities, influence executive peers, and present technology strategy in terms the business can understand.
4. Technology leaders are agents of change. Transition is our stable state.
5. Communication and relationship building are equally as important to IT leadership as technology skills.
6. Successful technology leadership must strike a balance between competing forces: Short v's long term value, technology v's business focus, leading v's enabling.
7. The Cio is responsible for cultivating technology leaership at all levels of the organisation. "

 

How do you maximise the Value of IT to the Business? This is a question being asked by the CIO Executive Council. They have developed a IT Value Matrix that illustrates the principles and practices to essential to creating, identifying and communicating IT's value to the enterprise.

It can be downloaded at www.cioexecutivecouncil.com/it_value or below

ITValueMatrix (1953 KB)

Its "Enduring principles of IT" below are a good general guideline and tie in with our philosophy and approach at Bua Consulting:

"

1. The primary goal of IT is to align with major enterprise objectives. Every technology initiative must be tied in a provable way with business value.
2. Because all major business initiatives are dependent upon technology, the CIO must have a voice at the table at which key business decisions are made.
3. With technology at the intersection of a business, the CIO has the responsibility to understand a business's complexities, influence executive peers, and present technology strategy in terms the business can understand.
4. Technology leaders are agents of change. Transition is our stable state.
5. Communication and relationship building are equally as important to IT leadership as technology skills.
6. Successful technology leadership must strike a balance between competing forces: Short v's long term value, technology v's business focus, leading v's enabling.
7. The Cio is responsible for cultivating technology leaership at all levels of the organisation. "

Technology Evaluation is a useful website for comparing technology and systems.
The company describes itself on its website:
"TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance. TEC has a library of knowledge bases, ranging in content from enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), and outsourcing, to financial, health services, radio frequency identification (RFID), and open source, all with data vetted by analysts."

Worth checking out.www.technologyevaluation.com

Technology Evaluation is a useful website for comparing technology and systems.
The company describes itself on its website:
"TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance. TEC has a library of knowledge bases, ranging in content from enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), and outsourcing, to financial, health services, radio frequency identification (RFID), and open source, all with data vetted by analysts."

Worth checking out.www.technologyevaluation.com

Technology Evaluation is a useful website for comparing technology and systems.
The company describes itself on its website:
"TEC provides decision support systems (DSS) that enable stakeholders to objectively identify the software products that best fit their company's unique business and systems requirements, and that contribute most effectively to superior business performance. TEC has a library of knowledge bases, ranging in content from enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), and outsourcing, to financial, health services, radio frequency identification (RFID), and open source, all with data vetted by analysts."

Worth checking out.www.technologyevaluation.com

The Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy

An interview with Michael Porter on the 5 competitive forces that shape strategy and the update to his 1979 article.

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Google Lively
Google's Lively application has apparently not had the expected impact on the marketplace according to an article in the Economist in August.
BUa Consulting has set up a virtual seminar room using Lively and will begin offering seminars to clients shortly.
While the technology is not perfect with future improvements and the addition of voice (hopefully) at some stage in the future this technology could prove extremely useful