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IT Benefits Management
Would You Survive an Alignment Audit? 12 August 1998
What if an auditor walked into your office and instead of asking the silly questions auditors often ask, presented you with a set of "alignment" questions? The audit objective is to determine if you're spending too much or too little, wisely or stupidly. Could you answer the following questions?
At the tender age of 24, I was nominated by the board of directors of my company to be an officer. If the office they were proposing had been President or Vice President it would have been something to write home about, but it wasn't. What they wanted me to become was Corporate Secretary.
At the tender age of 24, I was nominated by the board of directors of my company to be an officer.
45% of Companies Have not Explored
Tomorrow's Heavy Hitters
Tomorrow's Heavy Hitters 5 August 1998
One of the most important alignment areas is people. We all have them. We all need them. We all work to keep the good ones. But what is "talent" today?
Reading through a recent issue of Computerworld, I couldn't help thinking of Yogi Berra's refrain about "deja vu all over again." Salaries are up, IT costs are rising, the Web is everywhere. Outsourcing continues -- to Bulgaria now, of all places -- and every hardware and software vendor seems to have a dazzling new product guaranteed to cure whatever ails us.

