Enabling Strategic Collaboration with Business-IT Alignment

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  • 6 videos | 24m 18s
  • Includes Assessment
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Successful business-IT alignment continues to be a top concern of executives around the world. In today's business climate, technological and digital innovation are constantly changing the rulebook for running a competitive business. To thrive in this environment, businesses must align their business and IT functions to efficiently adapt to technological changes, capitalize on opportunities and deliver business value. In this course, you´ll learn about effective business-IT alignment and collaboration. You'll also explore the critical concepts, processes, and best practices for establishing and sustaining effective strategic alignment while avoiding pitfalls common to these initiatives. And you'll explore how you can sustain.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Discover the key concepts covered in this course
    Identify the key benefits of aligning business and it strategy
    Identify the steps necessary for aligning business and it
  • Identify the components of the strategic alignment framework
    Recognize strategies for avoiding challenges common to strategic alignment initiatives
    Identify best practices for sustaining successful business-it strategic alignment

IN THIS COURSE

  • 51s
    Technological and digital innovations are constantly changing the rules for running a competitive business. To thrive in this environment, businesses need digital transformation strategies that closely align business and IT functions so they can efficiently adapt to and exploit technological changes and opportunities. In this video, you'll discover the key concepts that will be covered in this course. FREE ACCESS
  • 5m 7s
    Technological innovation and digital optimization present new capabilities, new opportunities, and new ways to meet strategic business goals. Companies that fail to align their technology and business strategies risk falling behind in this age of constant innovation. In this video, you will learn the key benefits of aligning business and IT strategy. FREE ACCESS
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    3.  Aligning Business and IT
    3m 24s
    While business-IT strategic alignment can unlock new organizational opportunities, it requires planning, leadership, a step-by-step process, and good governance. In this video, you'll explore the steps necessary for aligning business and IT. FREE ACCESS
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    4.  Using a Strategic Alignment Framework
    4m 46s
    There is no one universal “best” model for aligning and implementing a business-IT strategy. If there were, it wouldn’t really be strategic. Everyone would adopt it, and everyone would be on the same, equal footing. But every organization, and every market, is different. In this video, you will learn about the components of the strategic alignment framework and how it can be adapted to your company. FREE ACCESS
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    5.  Overcoming Challenges in Business-IT Alignment
    5m 50s
    Business-IT alignment remains a top concern of business leaders. Recent surveys conducted by the Society for Information Management put IT alignment as the second biggest concern of IT executives, exceeded only by concerns about security. In this video, you will explore methods for avoiding pitfalls common to strategic alignment initiatives. FREE ACCESS
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    6.  Maintaining Success in Business-IT Alignment
    4m 21s
    Achieving an effective, high level of business-IT alignment isn’t easy. Neither is sustaining it. It requires constant support and effort from the various stakeholders. In this video, you'll learn best practices for sustaining successful business-IT strategic alignment. FREE ACCESS

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