Effectiveness vs. Alignment
September 10, 2007 from Project Portfolio Management Today
In a recent article by Brian Watson at CIO Insight, the author shares some of the early findings based on research by Bain & Company. In short, focusing on IT alignment is not necessarily the right answer: "companies grew faster and lowered costs more dramatically by first focusing on making their IT departments effective." Furthermore, "'aligning IT strategy and business strategy is the ultimate goal-it has been for 3
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