Business Strategies and IT Choices

Posted by on Feb 1, 2011 in Blog | 33 comments

Business Strategies and IT Choices

Executives today are keenly aware that information technology (IT) is critical to business success. However, they lack tools and processes to help them link their business strategies to key IT decisions such as, “How much should we spend on IT? Why? Where should we focus our IT investments? How much centralization should we have and in which areas?”

Over the past three years I have been researching this issue, through my teaching at Chicago Booth and my own research. This blog shares what I have learned and presents frameworks and processes that I have developed, together with analyses of illustrative case situations. It also contains references and links to relevant articles, cases and news stories.

I welcome your comments and feedback on these frameworks.  You can post your comments directly on the blog, or email me at mlele at strategicleverage.com. Please note that these frameworks are copyrighted — either by me, or by other researchers or academics.

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