Achieving business outcomes depends on fostering a new level of cross-departmental intimacy, not alignment.
IT-business alignment. I hope I never again hear another IT executive or industry pundit utter that term, the most insidious one ever concocted in the world of IT. The term is wrong on so many levels. It implies that IT and “the business” are somehow separate. It projects an image of two independent entities, each doing its own thing but trying to “stay aligned.” Like two people racing down the freeway in traffic at 100 mph but trying to keep their cars touching. You can see that it isn’t going to end well…
Continue reading this article which was published by InformationWeek on 09/18/2014 here: http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/team-building-and-staffing/it-business-alignment-enough-already/a/d-id/1315851
