General information about the future role of the IT organization, considering the business and technological changes, the effect of that change in many IT organizations. Four major process change in the way companies work all have a significant impact on the IT organization: reengineering of production processes, reengineering of support processes, redefining management of information flows and processes network restructuring. Distributed computing environments, new methods of software development capabilities, such as the Internet and other networks received in the computer industry, and outsourcing are the technological changes affecting the IT organization. The authors provide eight imperatives that IT organizations need to succeed, to do well: achieving bilateral strategic coordination, the development of effective relationships with line management, delivery and implementation of new systems, the creation and management of infrastructure, retraining IT organizations manage vendor partnerships, create high performance;.,; and rebuild and management of federal IT organization 'Hide
by John F. Rockart, Michael Earle, Jeanne W. Ross Source: MIT Sloan Management Review 16 pages. Publication Date: 01 Oct 1996. Prod. #: SMR024-PDF-ENG
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