2007: Two articles for Cutter Consortium

These are in the Cutter "Executive Updates" series.

"Agile Alignment" deals with why aligning IT with the business is an ongoing task, gives our take on why traditional methods (such as formal request processes) for portfolio decisions don't work well, and shows how to align with business goals.

"Agile Organization" takes a look at current trends toward moving IT into the business and some patterns of IT organization that can help prevent total IT chaos in the user-led development world.

They are available as free downloads from the Cutter Consortium. The URL is:

http://www.cutter.com/offers/cognitech.html

Interview in CIO Insight Magazine November 2005: Editors Perlman and Baker talked with Kay and Tom about CogniTech's finding that good IT-business alignment leads to higher profit margins over industry rivals. Also discusses what CogniTech has learned about how to measure and improve alignment. Available at: http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,1878432,00.asp

The Alignco Case Study

The Alignco Case Study gives a detailed description of how one CIO used the CogniTech Alignment Assessment to improve IT alignment and the resulting improvements in company financial performance. Gives good detail on how the CogniTech process works. To download it, click here.

IT Alignment and Profit Margin Improvement

This paper presents ten cases of companies who used the CogniTech IT Alignment Metrics more than once, and the profit-margin changes that accompanied their re-alignment efforts. These stories describe reasons for success and failure in their re-alignment efforts. To download this paper, click here.