Gain a fresh perspective on your key business and technology through a series of articles and executive presentations from our own thought leaders providing a valuable platform of best practice approaches for todays important trends and topics.

• Due DIligence
• IT Integration
• IT Transformation
• IT Alignment
• Post Merger Integration
• Driving Infrastructure Value Through IT

Due Diligence Executive Summary: Improvement of Corporate Performance is the goal of complex infrastructures such as computing centers, network operating centers, or corporate desktop infrastructures. Yet these infrastructures can only facilitate performance improvements when they are effectively conceived, designed, and managed. Many tools and systems have been developed to meet this demanding objective, not the lease of which are Business Intelligence and Data Mining solution.
Achieving success in managing complex infrastructures is an information intensive exercise. Though most organizations are fully aware that decision-making is fundamental to any operational business process, due-diligence is fundamental to decision-making.  Read More...   Back to Top

IT Integration Exec Summary: Many corporations are daunted by the challenge of integrating an existing technology infrastructure with established business processes. The effort required to knit together multiple legacy applications with manual and, in many cases, outdated, business processes are often viewed a complex and large scale projects. Organizations are frequently limited by outmoded IT infrastructures and, worse yet, in?exible IT governance models. Often, organizations ?nd it dif?cult to stay the course for the duration required to make measurable change visible to executive management. Some misjudge these efforts as primarily IT projects and do not leverage the participation of the business bene?ciaries who really can gain tremendous competitive edge from such collaboration.   Read More...   Back to Top

IT Transformation Executive Summary:  Without a considered strategy, organizations have driven enormous complexity into their Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and created much confusion within their business by reacting to technology requests piecemeal. It should come as no surprise that executives remain unsure about exactly what results they are getting from the IT function and why IT costs continue to rise. In recent years, companies have invested heavily in IT while trying to maintain competitive parity and support robust growth. In the current economic environment, it is dif?cult to gauge accurately the value derived from IT and to identify the pragmatic options that will allow a business to segment risk and drive growth, while simultaneously streamlining costs and improving performance.   Read More...   Back to Top

IT Alignment Executive Summary: Among their greatest challenges for CIOs is aligning IT with business goals and prioritizing the demands of business units and key stakeholders. CFOs also rate the alignment between IT and business goals within their companies as one of the most critical responsibilities to ensure success. Yet most CFOs describe the alignment of business and IT as weak. Why is alignment so hard to achieve? What must happen to achieve the perfect alignment of IT and business goals? Business leaders are responsible for three principles and everything they do in business serves one or more of them.

• Top-line growth
• Bottom-line efficiency
• Risk management

Post Merger Integration:  In todays highly competitive business environment, CEOs view growth as a key to business success. Growth is attained with planned strategies and by exploiting opportunities. It is important that IT infrastructure respond rapidly to changing business priorities so that it can handle business growth. Among their greatest challenges for CIOs is aligning IT with business goals and prioritizing the demands of business units and key stakeholders. CFOs also rate the alignment between IT and business goals within their companies as one of the most critical responsibilities to ensure success. Yet most CFOs describe the alignment of business and IT as weak. Why is alignment so hard to achieve? What must happen to achieve the perfect alignment of IT and business goals?   Read More...   Back to Top

Driving Infrastructure Value Through IT: How do you achieve a successful balance between strategic Information technology (IT) initiatives such IT business alignment, IT automation, and compliance, and ongoing business outcomes such as improved customer satisfaction and increased revenue? Business technology is so important that keeping systems running is just part of what you do. At the same time, you are still accountable for driving IT innovation that increases ef?ciency and keeps costs down. The balance between these challenges is delicate and too many CIOs choose only to address one side or the other - driving business value through strategic initiatives such as business application and technology upgrades or increase efficiency with tactics such as IT automation and consolidation.   Read More...  Back To Top