What others have said about our work:

The Gartner Group has published several reports on our work. Because of their copyright restrictions, we are not allowed to quote from these reports. However, for those who have access to these reports, here are the references:

Gartner Group EXP Premier Service Report: "business value...IT value: the missing link." November 2000, the Gartner Group, Inc.

Gartner Group Note, November 18,1998.

Gartner Group Research Note, July 25, 1996 Ref: Key Issues KA-470-042, B. Rosser.

"Assessing IS Performance." ITMP Research Report, Wentworth Research, (UK) November 1996

"CogniTech's IS Contribution measure need not be taken on trust. (As the figure shows) it is correlated with the profitability of the business unit... The simplest and most common-sense interpretation of this result is that an IS department that is well aligned with the business -- that is, one that supports managers' goals well--makes the business more profitable. That, after all, is what most IS directors are trying to do."

Systems Reengineering Economics Letter V.2, #6, June 1995: "IT Alignment with Corporate Goals--the Profitability Payoff."

"CogniTech Services Corporation, a Virginia-based management consulting firm, has found the first methodologically and statistically reliable evidence linking IT business alignment with profitability.... Once IT business alignment exceeds the average, every point of improvement yields a 0.4% gain in relative profit margin. Below-average business alignment in IT has virtually no power to leverage the bottom line."

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