Steve Andriole

We all need a repeatable requirements management methodology to manage the pace of business and technology change every organization is experiencing. We need a methodology that provides insight into project requirements before you spend serious money. Over the years I’ve developed a very, very simple way to size business/technology projects. Some of you may think […]

Some of you may remember artificial intelligence (AI) as the darling technology of the 1970s and 1980s. You also may remember the early “expert” decision support systems (DSSs) that populated vertical industries in the 1980s and early 1990s. The users of these systems had to be pretty sophisticated just to understand what the applications did, […]

Who’s in charge of tracking business technology trends in your company? I mean really “in charge”? Lots of places have in-house gurus but very few have created formal positions to track the major technology trends that can impact their companies. I’ve always found this amazing given the pace of technology and business change. Maybe it’s […]

If you haven’t outsourced lots of technology, you have some serious training requirements to satisfy. Even if you’ve outsourced some work, you’ll still have to keep your technology professionals current. If you have lots of technologists, then you’ve probably institutionalized the continuous training process — and hopefully you’re measuring its effectiveness. Like all of the […]

Are you outsourcing yet? If you’re not, then you’re in the minority. Most everyone outsources some part of their technology operation for all sorts of good — and occasionally bad — reasons. There’s no mystery as to why the IT services industry is clipping along at more than $1 billion per day in the U.S. […]

In the third and final part of this month’s IT/Biz Alignment column, we conclude our “open letter” to your company’s business and IT community — begun in Part 2 — by detailing how services, alternative funding mechanisms and, yes, people play a role in an effective organizational alignment. (In Part 1, we looked at major […]

One of the steps IT executives can take that will help them transition from perhaps where they are today to where they might very well need to go tomorrow is discussed below. It describes an approach to organizational alignment that builds from the assumptions laid out in Part 1, as well as current and future […]

Beyond the endless discussions about death march CIOs who report to CFOs, and Cheshire CIOs who’ve landed seats at the big table courtesy of their CEO-reporting relationship, are huge issues around how to make IT “work” in your company. Here are a few of them: The re-engineering of IT organizations will surface as one of […]

In Part 1 of this column, we introduced tools to help IT executives develop a baseline assessment of where and how their IT money gets spent. In Part 2, we’ll explore a method for determining how your organization funds what it buys, as well as which part of your organization logically should bear the cost […]

How much are you spending on IT annually? How does it break down? Are your hardware expenses rising faster than your software expenses? Are your personnel costs rising faster than your hardware and software costs? Critical and difficult questions, no doubt. But there’s a way sort through it all to answer these and other spending-related […]