New paper we’ve done. Please comment away.
Premise: It’s no wonder IT isn’t aligned with the business – it isn’t aligned internally with itself. The two biggest functional groups (infrastructure/operations & business/applications) are fundamentally at odds with each other.
Infrastructure/Ops’s priorities are all about lowering costs, improving IT efficiency, improving asset utilization. Biz/App’s priorities are centered on lowering the time to application value – which means faster time to deployment, faster QA, and faster development time. See the quandary?
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