To create and sustain a meaningful alignment between business and technology, high-level summaries about the direction of technology and tactical plans for big application suites don't cut it, warns Faisal Hoque, CEO of BTM Corp. In a post at CIOUpdate, Hoque argues that the conventional wisdom about what it takes to develop a business-driven technology strategy is flat-out wrong.

The business-driven technology strategy has to start with a business strategy, and that has to originate at the top, Hoque maintains. If the board, executive committee and CIO aren't integrally involved, there is a good chance that business-technology initiatives will fail.

To begin, capabilities needed to fulfill the business strategy have to be identified, then the technologies necessary for those capabilities have to be named and a plan for deploying the technologies has to be established.

For more:
- see Faisal Hoque's post at CIOUpdate

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