Analyst paper: IT business alignment

Latest research paper from Cutter Consortium's senior consultant Steve Andriole on IT business alignment

Cutter Consortium logo

The Five Flavours of Alignment

IT professionals are often concerned about the issue of aligning IT objectives with business strategies. This paper examines strategic alignment; infrastructure alignment; operational alignment; innovation alignment; and people alignment.

Download the latest research on IT business alignment - The Five Flavours of Alignment.

This was last published in September 2007

Amid pivot to the cloud, a change management plan builds support

A comprehensive change management plan was critical to the success of SoulCycle's big shift to the cloud. Read how IT coached ...

Automation Anywhere's Microsoft pact indicative of hot RPA market

RPA vendor Automation Anywhere said it's poised to take full advantage of the burgeoning RPA market. Its recent deal with ...

CIO's breadth, depth, business savvy on display at Trace3 Evolve

Technology leaders from NetApp, First American and Experian were among those honored at the Trace3 Evolve event. Their outsized ...

SearchSecurity

Cybersecurity skills shortage prompts new hiring approach

Hiring managers are widening the pool of candidates in response to the cybersecurity skills shortage. Learn how a parks and ...

Zoom vulnerability reveals privacy issues for users

Companies and users around the world were impacted by a Zoom conferencing software flaw that could allow threat actors to ...

How does an island hopping attack work?

Hackers know better than to directly attack a well-defended target; learn how they use island hopping attack strategies to elude ...

SearchNetworking

BGP tutorial: How the routing protocol works

Border Gateway Protocol is the complex routing protocol that literally makes the internet work. This tutorial walks you through ...

Cisco's acquisition of Acacia bolsters service provider offerings

Cisco plans to buy Acacia for $2.6 billion. Cisco's acquisition will make it a direct supplier of optical interconnects for the ...

How cloud network services affect transformation and security

In this roundup of networking blogs, experts dive into three facets of networking that cloud can affect: network transformation, ...

SearchDataCenter

IBM mainframes face competitive pressures inside and out

IBM's mainframe business continues to be under pressure from cloud-based competitors, and perhaps even its own Power server. ...

Linux features beyond server management

Due to its open source nature, Linux is constantly gaining new capabilities. Here's a look at some common use cases and features.

Use ASHRAE guidelines to get server temperature right

The main factors that affect server efficiency are inlet air temperature, humidity and contaminants. Follow these ASHRAE ...

SearchDataManagement

Snowflake product VP expounds on data warehouse for the cloud

In this Q&A, Christian Kleinerman, vice president of product development at cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake, talks about ...

RavenDB Cloud automates database management

RavenDB's managed cloud database service, RavenDB Cloud, intends to automate security processes, reduce overhead and cater to ...

Big data containers gain wider appeal in system deployments

This handbook examines the use of Docker containers in Kubernetes clusters to run big data systems and offers insight on ...

Read more on IT project management

Start the conversation

0 comments

Register

Login

Forgot your password?

Your password has been sent to:

Please create a username to comment.