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Insight
Abstract
As a percentage of gross revenue, technology budgets are growing. At the same time, the contribution that technology can make to the business is expanding. The key is to identify the technology acquisition, deployment, and support strategies most likely to help you save/make money. This Executive Report outlines a framework of assessments pertaining to strategy, leadership, culture, organization, awareness, technology, metrics, and sourcing.
To give you a clear understanding of our journey through the contemporary world of project management, we can make a strong parallel with the idea of being a cook or a chef. You can learn to be a cook and be able to routinely follow the recipes of others, or you can learn to be a chef and be able to create recipes for cooks to follow.
Domain
IT strategy
Assertion 176:Incessantly focusing on cheaper and faster has not made systems or organizations better. This strategy is leaving IT in a precarious position without an adequate infrastructure to address today's complex challenges.
We have worked extensively with clients this year on their IT strategic plans. One way we characterize the best approach is to distinguish between the "supply" and the "demand" components of the plan. This month, we'll focus on the "supply" side and next month on the "demand" side. (Incidentally, doing an effective "demand" side of IT strategic planning is by far the more critical and least understood.
With this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review we focus on the management of IT talent and look at the managerial and human resources challenges in the IT shop.