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Information Technology initiatives continue to challenge companies, financially and organizationally, resulting in out-of-scope and costly initiatives that deliver little measurable business value back to the organization. This trend has led to a well-defined gap between business and technology resulting in misguided and inefficient operations. In this qualitative study, four research questions guided my data collection and analysis: why do technology initiatives present institutional challenges, who is involved in determining the business need and technology selection, how is the ROI of a technology initiative determined and is the technology department seen as a strategic business unit and included in designing, developing and driving strategic initiatives. Analysis of data collected for this study yielded four main themes: a lack of leadership, including the misalignment of business and technology objectives and goals; a lack of change management; an inability to value IT initiatives, and a lack of general business knowledge among IT professionals. Together, these themes raise critical implications for understanding the business-technology gap. I offer recommendations and a framework, which I refer to as an IT Optimized Business Approach, and I describe how forward-thinking business methodologies can help address this gap, thus helping companies develop defensible IT initiatives that deliver business value back to the enterprise. ]]>
Information Technology initiatives continue to challenge companies, financially and organizationally, resulting in out-of-scope and costly initiatives that deliver little measurable business value back to the organization. This trend has led to a well-defined gap between business and technology resulting in misguided and inefficient operations. In this qualitative study, four research questions guided my data collection and analysis: why do technology initiatives present institutional challenges, who is involved in determining the business need and technology selection, how is the ROI of a technology initiative determined and is the technology department seen as a strategic business unit and included in designing, developing and driving strategic initiatives. Analysis of data collected for this study yielded four main themes: a lack of leadership, including the misalignment of business and technology objectives and goals; a lack of change management; an inability to value IT initiatives, and a lack of general business knowledge among IT professionals. Together, these themes raise critical implications for understanding the business-technology gap. I offer recommendations and a framework, which I refer to as an IT Optimized Business Approach, and I describe how forward-thinking business methodologies can help address this gap, thus helping companies develop defensible IT initiatives that deliver business value back to the enterprise. ]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:10:02 GMT /slideshow/it-synthesis/6978416 lewisbhowell@slideshare.net(lewisbhowell) IT Synthesis lewisbhowell Information Technology initiatives continue to challenge companies, financially and organizationally, resulting in out-of-scope and costly initiatives that deliver little measurable business value back to the organization. This trend has led to a well-defined gap between business and technology resulting in misguided and inefficient operations. In this qualitative study, four research questions guided my data collection and analysis: why do technology initiatives present institutional challenges, who is involved in determining the business need and technology selection, how is the ROI of a technology initiative determined and is the technology department seen as a strategic business unit and included in designing, developing and driving strategic initiatives. Analysis of data collected for this study yielded four main themes: a lack of leadership, including the misalignment of business and technology objectives and goals; a lack of change management; an inability to value IT initiatives, and a lack of general business knowledge among IT professionals. Together, these themes raise critical implications for understanding the business-technology gap. I offer recommendations and a framework, which I refer to as an IT Optimized Business Approach, and I describe how forward-thinking business methodologies can help address this gap, thus helping companies develop defensible IT initiatives that deliver business value back to the enterprise. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/itsynthesishowell-lewishowell-net-110218171012-phpapp01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> Information Technology initiatives continue to challenge companies, financially and organizationally, resulting in out-of-scope and costly initiatives that deliver little measurable business value back to the organization. This trend has led to a well-defined gap between business and technology resulting in misguided and inefficient operations. In this qualitative study, four research questions guided my data collection and analysis: why do technology initiatives present institutional challenges, who is involved in determining the business need and technology selection, how is the ROI of a technology initiative determined and is the technology department seen as a strategic business unit and included in designing, developing and driving strategic initiatives. Analysis of data collected for this study yielded four main themes: a lack of leadership, including the misalignment of business and technology objectives and goals; a lack of change management; an inability to value IT initiatives, and a lack of general business knowledge among IT professionals. Together, these themes raise critical implications for understanding the business-technology gap. I offer recommendations and a framework, which I refer to as an IT Optimized Business Approach, and I describe how forward-thinking business methodologies can help address this gap, thus helping companies develop defensible IT initiatives that deliver business value back to the enterprise.
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