The document discusses the importance of measurable IT-business alignment and provides recommendations for achieving it. It recommends that enterprises 1) understand business capability gaps, 2) optimize IT resources to address these gaps, and 3) streamline functionality, data, and processes to boost stakeholder expectations and confidence. Measuring IT-business alignment is key to improving it, and the author's book provides thorough ideas for putting measurements in place.

1. Measurable IT-Business
Alignment
Or At Least Attempt It
By
Kaunteya K. Pande
Director, Enterprise Architecture &
IT-Business Alignment Enthusiast

2. Why IT-Business Alignment?
Misalignment Causes Opportunity
Costs & Wasted Investments
Efficient IT budgeting
& Resource Allocation
Effective Serving Stakeholder Interests, Balancing
IT Portfolio Across Short & Long Term Vision
Effective Serving Stakeholder Interests, Balancing
IT Portfolio Across Short & Long Term Vision
Equitable Distribution Of IT
Efforts Among Business Units
Prioritize IT efforts To Help
Enterprise Goals By Priority.
Optimize IT investments, Supporting IT Governance.

3. IT-Business Alignment In
Context Of Enterprise
Architecture
Enterprise
Architecture Drives
Alignment of All
Organizational
Activities To Business
Capabilities.
Alignment of
Other
Departments
IT- Business
Alignment
Better IT
Leverage To
Stronger
Business
Capabilities.

4. IT - People Alignment With
Business Landscapes
•Align People Allocation To Projects
•Vision, Mindset & Culture
•Organizational Structure
•Skill-set (Business Acumen & Technical)
•Reward Structure
People Alignment
•Input from Business to IT: Business Requirement Process
•Output from IT to Business: Delivery Process
Process Alignment
•Data Management
•Business Functionality Manifested As Applications
•Usability
Technology Alignment

5. 10 Step Mantra For IT-Business
Alignment
• 1: Understand Business Capability Gaps By Stakeholders,
Departments, Time-Span
• 2: Optimize Your Resources To Above Gaps
• 3: Organize Your IT organization Towards Business Domains
• 4: Encourage By Rewarding IT workers to Boost Enterprise Goals
• 5: Educate IT Workers With Business Expertise
• 6: Inculcate Business vision Into IT Workers' Mindset and Culture
• 7: Set Ground-rules For Inbound & Outbound Communication To & From
IT
• 8: Streamline functionality Manifested In Software w/ Stakeholders'
Expectations
• 9: Streamline data To Boost Stakeholder's confidence in the
information stored.
• 10: Bust perceptions: Clear Up Any Mis-Perceptions, Act On Justified
Perceptions.

6. How To Measure It?
A Key Step To Improve IT-Business Alignment Is
Measurement..
For Some Thorough Ideas In How To Put Some
Measurements In Place, Please Refer To My
Book..
“Alignment Is Not Just For Wheels- Science &
Art of IT-Business Alignment”
www.lulu.com/kpande

7. Thanks!
Who Am I?
www.linkedin.com/in/kaunteya
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