November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
5h 39m
English
Content preview from Aligning Technology with Business for Digital Transformation
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial

Business–IT Alignment: Platitude or Survival?
If you are still in an organization where the alignment of IT with Business is a mere platitude, let me offer this advice to you: Get off the bus before it tumbles down the ravine. Business—IT alignment (BITA) is not another well-tossed transformation brew stirred up by hype rather than value. It is a ground-up reality brought upon us by compelling and irreversible changes in our environment — market, economic, social, and of course, technological. It is survival.
We saw in the previous chapter that for most of their history, Business and IT existed in completely different, nonintersecting universes. Let us cut to the present. The amalgamation of IP-centric technologies, an abundance of ...