The Inherent Efficiency of Growth
May 27, 2007 10:15 Filed in:
Technology 3.0
topic Business 3.0
What's the best way to create a more efficient IT organization?
- Implement ITIL?
- Outsource?
- Better align IT goals with business strategy?
- Integrate enterprise processes using web services?
- Focus on growing the skills of your resource pool.
What if there was a better way to provide more services per dollar, one that had nothing to do with your ability to execute as an organization? I am talking about business growth, and the impact running an IT organization at a belt tightening Gap (Limited Brands) vs, heading a similar organization at a rapidly growing Nordstrom.
My analysis provides a surprising and very disheartening result if you are CIO at a company with weak or negative growth. IT departments in growth companies have a significant cost advantage.
Thus if you are right now heads down figuring out how to give your low growth company a cost advantage so it can ... "catch-up" with the industry leaders, you might want to read this article, ... because your job just got a bit tougher. More...
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Profit Forms
June 06, 2006 10:50 Filed in:
Business 3.0
Publishing details on Profit Forms for
the first time. The final list will include 33 or 34 different
forms.
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