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By Harris Kern, special to SearchCIO.com
29 Sep 2003 | SearchCIO.com |
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After assessing more than 250 Fortune 500 and Global 2000 IT organizations, I've compiled a list of the top issues and challenges plaguing IT executives:
No wonder IT is still considered a cost center by its business counterparts in 70% of Global 2000 companies. A majority of these issues relate directly to the infrastructure and the organizations that support it. In order to effectively address these issues, IT organizations need to adhere to a set of guidelines or methodologies as they're designing that ideal IT environment.
All great organizations have a vision, a mission and elemental guidelines for proper behavior that are infused into their people. Perhaps the oldest code of conduct is the Ten Commandments. Since the day Moses stumbled off Mount Sinai, people have applied the idea of condensing their groups' rules into 10 easily remembered sentences.
Following the lead of Moses, I've distilled the methodologies for building the ideal organization into 10 commandments. If you want to build the ideal IT organization, be sure you embrace them.
Check out those 10 commandments tomorrow on SearchCIO.com.
Harris Kern is an IT consultant, lecturer, author and publisher. His clients include Standard and Poor's, 20th Century Fox, Nike and Fannie Mae. For more information on the Harris Kern Enterprise Computing Institute, visit www.harriskern.com.
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