Bringing Business and IT Together: Practical Steps to Improve Working Relationships and Analytics Culture
Conflicts between business and IT have existed from the very beginning of the digital age, and the problem still plagues most companies. Poor business/IT working relationships have a high cost to the organization in many ways. As the interdependencies of business and technology grow, the cost of failed relationships also increases. It is essential that business/IT working relationships undergo fundamental and systemic change if the value of business intelligence is to be fully realized and organizations are to become driven by data.
- Recognition of the problem
- A systematic approach to improve business/IT working relationships
- Continuous attention to organizational alignment
- A survey of practical steps for removing the business/IT gap