Gardens and IT-business alignment
Those of you who subscribe to our
monthly newsletter will be aware that Neil, Jon and I together with Dale Vile from our partner
Freeform Dynamics are in the process of writing a book on IT-business alignment for
John Wiley & Sons:
The Technology Garden: Cultivating Sustainable IT-Business Alignment.
Rather than pontificate from our respective ivory towers, we have gone out into the real world and conducted numerous interviews with senior IT and business executives to draw out best practice and use that to produce what we hope will be a practical guide for organisations that want to maximise the business value of their IT investments. We will be backing that up with some scorecards designed to help organisations use the guide by assessing where they currently are and how they can move forward.
We will be documenting our progress over
here. We want the site to be about more than the book so as well as posting our thoughts as the writing progresses, we will be providing links to and commentary on relevant IT-business alignment resources. This is not just about what we think though: we hope that those of you out there with something to say about IT-business alignment (and I am sure there are plenty of you) will contribute to the discussion. Ultimately, we hope the site will become an IT-business alignment resource in its own right, long after the book has finished whizzing (we can dream!) off the shelves.
