The “Enable” curriculum will help you create a positive future and implement supporting mechanisms to foster IT-business alignment.

IT’s positive future is described in Valuedance’s® Enabling IT model. Enabling IT promotes business accountability and self-sufficiency, positions IT to ensure that IT is done well, and defines decision rights that serve as the foundation to IT-business alignment.

To improve alignment, CIOs must work the “hard” and the “soft”. The hard realities dictate that IT’s business partners will always want more for less, without delay. Smart CIOs figure out how to balance supply and demand in a way that works for both the business and IT. Smart CIOs establish strategy and governance practices that force the business to say “no” to themselves and design technologies and organizations that “flex” as business volume and project demands ebb and flow.

The “soft” side of alignment recognizes that good relationships are necessary to implementing and making IT-business alignment practices work. It’s through relationships that IT leaders apply the tenets of marketing (“Tell them what you are going to do, tell them that you are doing it, and tell them that you got it done”) and communicate performance in a way that isn’t viewed as self serving but in a way that serves others.