The Secret Sauce of Business Alignment is an article touting how IT leaders make excuses to avoid practicing what they preach.
But oftentimes, while CIOs go to great lengths to modify the behaviors of their business partners, they haven’t examined and modified their own. For example, most IT organizations are accustomed to initiating projects or selecting technology without subjecting themselves to approval or review committees. While CIOs could get away with this behavior when they made pretty much all of the decisions (on behalf of the users-whether they liked it or not), that’s impossible in today’s world of shared accountability.
Having been in many presentations asking for approvals and capital for IT projects, and having guided several organizations through the technology budgeting process, I found the 5 excuses right on.
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