5 Posts found for Publisher: Optimize

Can the technologies you’re considering pass this test suggested by innovation-diffusion theorist Everett Rogers?

• Relative advantage: Is the innovation better than the status quo? Better than competing alternatives? Is it compelling enough to get users to switch, given the expectations about how others will behave?
• Compatibility: How well does the innovation complement other products your users have? Is it interoperable?
• Simplicity: How simple is it to explain

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Author: Bhaskar Chakravorti | Source: The Circuitous Path to an IT Payoff | Subject: Innovation Questions

Some self-evaluation is required of executive teams that want to align their IT managers and avoid conflict with the COO. It’s OK if the CIO’s role remains technical rather than strategic, but executives must set goals and measure success accordingly. Here are some pertinent questions:

1. Does your company view IT activities as key contributors to revenue growth and profitability?
2. If “yes,” does this represent a new

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Authors: Nathan Bennett, Stephen Miles | Source: Changes At C-Level | Subject: IT Questions

The following is a series of questions you should ask partners before you link your systems, whether through supply-chains, customer-relationship management, or as a member of an exchange. The sensitivity level of the data to be shared will dictate the appropriate depth of inquiry:

• Are the devices–servers, routers, and firewalls–your company will use to collaborate dedicated to our company, or are they also used

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Author: James Kalyvas | Source: Judicious Partnering | Subject: IT Questions

• Is your company’s infrastructure helping or hindering your company’s …
  M&A options and plans?
  New-product and speed-to-market strategies?
  Efforts to implement new technologies that deliver a more unified, holistic view of your customers?
  Depending on your company’s business strategy in the coming years, a response of “hindering” to any of these questions might put your organization on the defensive when faced with competition from

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Author: Jeff Hughes | Source: Overcoming IT Ambivalence | Subject: IT Questions

Before getting started with a business-continuity plan, CIOs should ask some strategic questions:

Author: Mark Dangelo | Source: Fending Off Disaster | Subject: Business Continuity / Crisis Questions