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The CIO’s Survival Guide to M&A, Part 1: The Merger

 

The IT Value Challenge’s author shares four key strategies CIOs can employ to come out on top when their company merges with another in a new byline article on CIOUpdate.com.

To read the article click here or visit CIOUpdate.com.

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Webinar: CIO Best Practices for Advising Your CEO & Board of Directors

The IT Value Challenge’s author will be sharing top tips for how CIOs can advise their CEOs and Boards of Directors in an exciting webinar presented by ExecSense on May 18th. Click here for details and registration information.

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Quick and easy IT productivity wins

 

The IT Value Challenge’s author contributes strategies for increasing IT departments’ productivity with InfoWorld readers in a new article by master IT writer Dan Tynan.

Click here to read the article on InfoWorld.com.

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McKinsey: More than half the synergies in a merger are strongly tied to IT

A Harvard Business Review Daily Stat released today shared the results of a McKinsey study that indicates 50% to 60% of the initiatives intended to capture synergies are strongly tied to information technology.  While the premise of the article should come as no surprise, it highlights the importance of keeping IT front and center when approaching merger transactions.

Image (c) 2011 McKinsey and Company.

To read the McKinsey Quarterly article, click here. (Free registration required.)  To read the IT Value Challenge’s recent article discussing how companies can leverage IT to realize such synergies when pursuing merger transactions, click here.

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The Most Mismanaged IT Asset of All – the CIO

 

The IT Value Challenge’s author explores the why and how of refocusing CIOs’ time and effort on value creation rather than running the day-to-day operations of the IT department in a new byline article on CIOUpdate.com.

To read the article click here or visit CIOUpdate.com.

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Keep IT In Mind When Merging

 

In a new byline article in Biztech Magazine, the IT Value Challenge’s author shares four ways companies can maximize the value the company realizes from the transaction by putting IT front and center before and after the transaction.

To read the article, click here or see page 47 in the March 2011 print edition of the magazine.

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4 Easy Budget Cuts Every IT Manager Can Find

The IT Value Challenge’s author outlines four ways that companies can cut non-value IT spending without gutting IT’s ability to provide critical services and deliver value in new byline article on CIOUpdate.com.

To read the article click here or visit CIOUpdate.com.

Please note this is the third in a series of three articles. The first two articles may be found here and here.

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A Value Case for FCPA Compliance

Many companies choose to invest significant time, effort and money into Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance because they fear the consequences of failure to comply. The good news is that FCPA compliance can have an upside: creating value for the business.

In a new byline article on CorporateComplianceInsights.com, the IT Value Challenge’s author shares three ways to leverage FCPA compliance to creatve value for the enterprise and getter a better return on those frequently mandatory investments.

To read the article click here or visit CorporateComplianceInsights.com.

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How to recapture IT spending

In a new article on CIOUpdate.com, the IT Value Challenge’s author outlines ways that companies can reclaim a portion of their non value-creating IT spending to make it available to improve company economic performance or for differential investment.

To read the article click here or visit CIOUpdate.com.

Please note this is the second in a series of three articles. The first article in the series may be found here.

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Charting a course for IT in 2011

2011 represents a critical recovery year for many companies still recovering from the 2008 economic downturn, and a make-or-break year for the IT departments that support them. At the same time IT spending is on the rise, so are the business’ expectations of value. There are three key, collaborative concepts business and IT executives can leverage to increase their mutual chances of success in 2011. (more…)

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