The Quest for Business and IT alignment Continues

While everybody is still talking about the importance of IT and business alignment, effective execution remains an elusive outcome. Experts say that building a governance framework is important to ensuring alignment, and that the following five criteria are essential elements to building an effective, aligned framework:

• 1) demand management
• 2) prioritizing IT investments
• 3) IT application-portfolio management
• 4) supply management
• 5) setting IT architecture and security standards

Particularly with emerging technologies like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, a governance framework is critical as CIOs continue to align business and IT in the enterprise.

Lean more about the five requirements:
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