IT Waste Management..

hmm.. Do you know what is being wasted in your IT organization? Nirvana (the highest level of maturity) is not reality in IT organization. It is a stretch goal. There are always room for improvement in any IT organization. Some time back, a set of projects were perceived as a high business value projects and [...]

How much functional knowledge required for a CIO ?

Slowly IT (Information Technology) is becoming BT (Business technology). Traditionally the CIO of an organization (the core business is not IT) is a leader with strong technical background who understands the technology, systems, IT processes and have a less functional knowledge comparing to the IT knowledge. Due to the role and function of IT changing [...]

IT Investment Management

When IT is a cost center to enable and support a core business (like financial services, credit card, etc) the investment decision with in IT requires a clear plan from the office of CIO and the plan is to align to the IT strategy. Investment management plan provides a guidelines to the senior management team [...]