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IT Governance

5 IT Governance Attitudes Foreshadow Failure

Tweet After you have the organization following your core IT processes (more on that here), you are ready to add effective IT governance to increase productivity and alignment.  Before you do this, make sure that you squash any of these five attitudes that may exist in your teams that will implement governance – they will […] MORE

May 07, 2009

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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?

Tweet by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1.  That […] MORE

May 05, 2009

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IT Governance: Does it Work?

Tweet My good friend Peter Weill, Chairman of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), defines IT governance as “specifying the decision rights and accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the use of IT.” In a perfect system, desirable behavior would be the norm and governance would deal with the exceptions. Unfortunately, in many […] MORE

April 14, 2009

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