Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in Rants on CIO.com
I’ve been listening to CIOs, reading about CIOs and hearing their problems for almost 12 years now, and to be perfectly candid, I am sick and tired of having to listen to CIOs’ alignment struggles: The seemingly insurmountable challenge of aligning their IT department’s mission and priorities with their business’s mission and priorities.
This so-called predicament has been on our radar screen for decades. We’ve written ad nauseam about alignment challenges in the past. Here’s one article that makes the case for The ROI of alignment. Another where we question why alignment was so difficult. Another where we offer a formula for alignment. And still another where our in-house coach instructs CIOs to avoid the "managing expectations" moniker when addressing alignment. There’s a lot more. Trust me.
In addition, my e-mail inbox receives a steady stream of survey results that detail the cumulative admonitions from CIOs regarding their alignment failings.
