Recapturing "True" Life
Cycle Portfolio Management; The Path to More Successful Product
Development
by Bill
Ausura
Over the past few years, portfolio management has focused almost exclusively on creation of “new” products—to the detriment of other portions of the product life cycle. The author argues that product development professionals should take a more holistic view of portfolio management in order to get the best results.<more>
Behold
The Conqueror, The CIO!
By Peter Skarzynski and Lloyd
Switzer
CIO input typically comes too late in the corporate
decision process. It's up to you to build your understanding of corporate
strategy—and
make sure your voice is heard.<more>
The
IT Productivity Gap
by Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor
of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the
Center for eBusiness at MIT
The link between corporate performance and IT
investment remains elusive. Organizations have invested heavily in enterpise
wide systems that have
in many cases yielded lukewarm results. Some companies have found that
while their systems have sped up the processing of information, "logjams"
exist in the dissemination of this information. This usually arises when
human workers are involved as part of a misaligned or outdated business
process. Brynjolfsson argues that without larger organizational changes,
IT gains won't measure up. The most successful organizations recognize
that IT innovation has to be accompanied by investments in better work
practices -- the "digital organization" -- in order to close the IT productivity
gap.<more>
Taking
the Application Foundation View
by John Glaser & Steve Flammini,
CIO and CTO of Partners HealthCare System, Boston
Rather than viewing IT activities as a sequential set of project implementations,
a better approach to portfolio management may come in building application
"foundations" and unlocking their potential in an ongoing series of advances.
By taking this evolutionary view of the Application Foundation, more attention
can be paid to realizing the full value of systems, and therefore improving
organizational performance.<more>
