IT Business Alignment White Papers

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IT governance: enabling high performance in turbulent times
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how CIOs can use governance best practices to mitigate the depth and duration of performance declines that often accompany periods of change and innovation. It will clarify what governance is - and isn't - and articulate how CIOs can begin to improve governance within their organizations.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

IBM

Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Dec 2007

SAP AG

IBM SOA Business Value Assessment
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: The IBM Online SOA Business Value Analyzer will help you better understand your specific IT and business related goals, the priority of each goal, IBM entry point projects designed to reach your specific goals and the benefits of these projects.
Posted: 03 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

IBM Software Group

The new CIO: insights from the Center for CIO Leadership: An interview with Harvey Koeppel, Executive Director, Center for CIO Leadership
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Harvey Koeppel, executive director of the Center for CIO Leadership, talks about the challenges facing CIOs today and the emerging role of the CIO as a business leader helping to drive change and innovation.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

IBM

Four Starting Points for Effective Project and Portfolio Management
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Many IT project management initiatives often miss goals, exceed budgets and fail to deliver benefits. Read this paper to learn how optimizing project management can help organizations transition from managing IT projects to managing business outcomes.
Posted: 01 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Business Case Development Best Practices for Data Center and IT Projects: Speed Up Your Project Approval and Start with Confidence
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

HP & Intel®

The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2.0. Download a complimentary chapter
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Sandy Carter, Vice President of SOA and WebSphere Strategy, IBM Corporation, takes readers through a specific roadmap on how, where, when, and why to embrace a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy in her new book.
Posted: 22 Oct 2007 | Published: 22 Oct 2007

IBM

Cloud Security Myths and Strategies Uncovered
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Security and compliance is the most often-cited barrier to cloud adoption. Read what David Hunter, CTO of Platform Security from VMware, and Art Coviello Jr., Executive Chairman of RSA, say about ensuring control and visibility in a secure cloud.
Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

VMware, Inc.

Identify and Leverage Your Existing Service Life Cycles
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This executive brief will illustrate the progression of service management since the 1990s, illuminate the hidden service life cycles and discuss how, once they are visible, we can start to make them work — to improve services and better align IT with business objectives.
Posted: 22 Jul 2010 | Published: 22 Jul 2010

IBM

Aligning Business and IT through Connected Requirements: Unifying the Development Process
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn how the connected-requirements approach serves as the framework for the use of products and technologies that are designed to allow you to optimize team performance, align the development process with your organization's business goals and meet auditing and regulatory compliance requirements.
Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

IBM