Background The case outlines five specific problems at NAF: IT budgeting is misaligned with enterprise strategy, Project decisions are made without cross-functional synergies, Inconsistent business cases, No ability to stop projects, No accountability for delivering benefits. Background After an initial meeting with senior management, Matt and Caroline meet with others in the organization and come up with the following set of principles: Alignment of the IP development portfolio with enterprise strategies Rigor and common standards around IT planning and business casing Accountability in both business and IT for delivering value Collaboration and cross group synergies in all IT work. Background The Team develops the following vision statement: ◦ “Our Vision is for a holistic view of our IT spending that will allow us to direct our resources where they will have the greatest impact. We propose to increase rigor…
Cost of labor is lower in other regions of the World. Lower costs of labor means smaller organizations that cannot afford a customer server center can outsource the task to an overseas organization that specializes in the task. However, the organization needs to perform extensive research on the vendor who will be receiving the transfer of work.”…
| -Help business owners focus their technology budgets on competitive advantage rather than infrastructure- Services: inventory management, accounting, web based software, scheduling, user security and privileges, multiple location, quotation & estimates among many other services…
References: McKeen, J. D., & Smith, H. A. (2012). IT Strategy: Issues and Practices (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.…
Finally- At a time when "cash reserves were limited," Bob Stetzel wants "an efficient, well organized enterprise IT architecture that could serve as a robust platform for the company's changing business requirements." Given your analysis in response to the previous questions, and any other aspects you consider important to this case, what specific, actionable, and cost-effective advice can you suggest?…
Governance of IT investments in support of the duties and responsibilities of the Information Technology Advisory Council and the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth;…
“Well Oiled IT” – Low IT alignment to business objectives but high efficacy in completing IT projects.…
Homestyle Hotels Inc is a result of merger of Lifestyle Resorts and Home Away Hotels. Each individual hotel operates in silos with no standardized process to capture client information. Initially, Ben Garrett (the IT director)’s mandate was to ‘consolidate the firm’s IT’, however with the said objective having been achieved, the higher management now wanted a more cohesive picture to enable better analysis and present a consistent picture to the outside world. The roadblocks to the integration are one too many- two different hotels, two different ways of working, vast geographical expanse. The question now was, of the two vendors who had come to present their software applications, which application would most suit the organization’s business need.…
This paper will discuss the most effective CIO’s strategy for strategic IT planning. This paper will also address the expectations of a successful CIO.…
References: McKeen, J. D., & Smith, H. A. (2012). It strategy issues and practices (second ed.).…
Rang, J. (2003, September ). Are your it and strategic plans aligned. Retrieved from http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/articledetail.cfm?ItemNumber=13514…
IT Strategy: Issues and Practices by James D. McKeen & Heather A. Smith, 2nd edition of 2012.…
The background is the first part of the IT Strategic Plan document. It is an introduction for people who are strangers to the information systems organization. These outside readers need to be given the contextual information they need to fully comprehend the IT Strategic Plan.…
Case Assignment 1: "How do the two UCB's strategic IT plans compare against the Baldridge criteria for assessing strategic planning?"…
The measures of business value for BI investments must be defined from an IT and a…