Comments on: Some thoughts on IT-Business Alignment from the Chase Zander IT Director Forum http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/ Thoughts on the confluence of business, change and technology. Areas covered include business intelligence, cultural transformation, business and IT alignment, business and IT strategy, project execution and social media. Sun, 20 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The CIO / IT Director Survey – Redux « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-7477 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:48:04 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-7477 [...] to solicit feedback on the top issues facing CIOs and IT Directors. This was in preparation for a seminar I was helping a recruitment agency – Chase Zander – to run. I got a lot of very [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-939 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:16:23 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-939 Some further thoughts on this area from Glenn Whitfield’s blog.

Peter

]]> By: Pigeonholing - A tragedy « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-805 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:11:57 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-805 [...] topic came up again in a follow-on discussion I had with a CIO who had attended the Chase Zander IT Director Forum last week. During this chat, we spoke about the benefit of having a broad set of skills, but [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-782 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:40:33 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-782 Hi George,

Your comment was tagged as spam for some reason, rescued it now.

Thanks for the link – will reciprocate.

Peter

]]> By: George Tomko http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-781 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:06:49 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-781 Hey Peter,

Thanks for the comment. I posted a link to your blog in my blogroll and look forward to reading more of your posts.

Sincerely,
George Tomko
http://www.ciorant.com

]]> By: A review of “The History of Business Intelligence” by Nic Smith « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-777 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:29:38 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-777 [...] trod the same path looking for a definition of IT-Business Alignment in the presentation appearing here), the director embarks on a personal quest to find the answer himself. Along the way, he comes to [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-721 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:27:39 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-721 I think that the following article by George M. Tomko has some relevance for the CIO to CEO issue that we discussed:

http://www.ciorant.com/2009/03/is-cio-pinnacle-position.html

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-615 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:30:43 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-615 I agree Ilya,

It is more important that change is managed than who manages it. Not all of the discussions were 100% aligned with alignment, as you would probably expect.

Peter

]]> By: bizvortex http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-612 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:29:36 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-612 Very good report, Peter. Would love to participate in a future forum like this one.

I think that it really does not matter where the instigator of innovation and positive change is located within the organization. IT is well positioned to introduce great ideas with tremendous impact but it does not mean that we should expect every organization to depend on IT in respect to innovation.

Comes to execution of projects, again, if it is felt that IT is better suited to act as the PMO(whatever that means to you), this is also fine, given proper skill set is in place.

So, I don’t think there is no such thing as the right answer here. Having it one way or the other does not necessarily imply alignment or the lack thereof.

Cheers,

Ilya Bogorad
ibogorad@bizvortex.com

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/03/27/some-thoughts-on-it-business-alignment-from-the-chase-zander-it-forum/#comment-608 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:51:01 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=2178#comment-608 Hi Glenn,

The majority of attendees were either CIOs or IT Directors. We had one COO and the rest were made up of Heads of X (where X was a significant chunk of IT) and a couple of high-level IT consultants.

I didn’t notice any particular correlation between seniority and views on change. This seemed more of a reflection on the differences between organisations and their cultures.

Peter

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