Welcome to IT matters!
In the book “Does IT Matter?” Nicholas Carr tried to answer this question and in the process dented the hopes (not to mention egos!) of many IT professionals. Here is Gary Hamel’s take on it, as a reminder of what the fuss was about
"Companies around the world have spent billions of dollars on information technology, yet in most cases this investment has failed to produce any genuine competitive advantage. In his timely and provocative book, Nicholas Carr explains why this is so, and challenges business leaders to take a more prudent and practical view of the role of IT in business success."
–Gary Hamel, Author, Leading the Revolution
This blog is written by people who clearly believe that IT does in fact matter. This blog is for any IT professional in corporate IT, or any business person who has an interest in how his corporate IT function performs and cover topics around the management, strategy, planning and execution of IT inside a business.
In the coming months we are going to address a number of topics of interest to us in our research and work with our clients and hope that you find them informative, useful and ideas that you would like to contribute to in discussion on the various threads. Please feel free to comment on this thread as well and let us know what you think about the topics listed below the fold.
Transforming the IT function: Those halcyon dot com days when business was raining money down on IT are now just a distant memory for most companies. For many IT departments what came next (and is still coming!) is round after round of cost cutting, rationalization and consolidation. We believe that there will be a wave now of attempts to truly transform the IT department in many corporations around the world. This topic will introduce you to our IT Capability Framework and provide thoughts and guidance on how to go about transforming your IT function to better support the business
Evolving role of the CIO: Are you a CIO today? Do you aspire to become a CIO? This blog will look at how the role of the CIO is evolving based on technology and business trends and especially as it is affected by globalization and the “Flattening” of the business world.
Building Competitive advantage with IT: I have already mentioned this topic above, but we will be exploring different ways in which IT really can make a difference and really does help make a company more competitive. Whether you think IT matters or not is up to you!
Bridging IT and business: We all know that IT and business people speak different languages. If you are on the business side, do you consider your IT Department to be ‘friend or foe’! In this topic we will be discussing ways to improve that relationship, to learn different languages and help both IT and the business find ways to get more out of each other!
Excellence in program and project delivery: This is your meat and potatoes : Delivering what you said you would deliver on time and on budget and . . oh yes . . with no defects. This topic will cover thoughts, ideas, tools and help to improve delivery of your projects
Technology news and updates: We will comment on current news and topics from the press as well as potentially book reviews and other items we think might be of interest to people who read this blog
