Avoiding the Alignment Trap in Information Technology 1 About the Case • Article in “MIT Sloan Management Review” • Article is prepared based on survey of more than 500 senior • • business & technology executives and in-depth interview of 30 CIOs. The principle findings of the study is that even at companies that were focused on alignment‚ business performance dependent on IT sometimes went sideways‚ or even declined. Article talks about two primary factors for success in IT: • • Alignment
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AVOIDING CROSS-CULTURAL MISCOMMUNICATION Abstract International business has been developing fast in the globalization. We can see Chinese businessmen in most of places in the world‚ from Africa to America‚ and many 2 foreign companies are investing in China‚ vise versa. I‚ a Vietnamese woman‚ am working for Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) in oil and gas field in Vietnam where lots of foreign oil and gas corporations are operating such as KNOC‚ Halliburton‚ Schlumberger‚ BP‚ and Premier.
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ABSTRACT JACKSON‚ HAROLD VAUGHN JR. A Structured Approach for Classifying and Prioritizing Product Requirements. (Under the Direction of Dr. William A. Smith Jr. and Dr. Wilbur L. Meier Jr.) New product development involves making a series of decisions that transform vaguely defined customer needs and desires into a final product. Two important‚ but often overlooked‚ product development decisions are (1) the classification of requirements as mandatory or optional‚ and (2) the prioritization
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INTRODUCTION 2 A POOR MANAGEMENT 2 TIME BUDGET 2 GOAL SETTING 3 PRIORITIZING A TIME 3 TIME WASTERS 4 REDUCE STRESS 4 CONCLUSION 5 REFERENCE 6 INTRODUCTION In this generation‚ many students are usually challenged with how to properly manage their own time. Every human being gets 168 hours on one week. No one gets more time and no one gets less time. According to the Forsyth (2010)‚ properly manage time including planning‚ scheduling and organizing the time in order to achieve a goals and
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Although it has been referred to as the “Noble Game of Billiards‚” the game of pocket billiards has long held a reputation as a game played by‚ shady individuals‚ in smoke filled parlors only accessible through dark alleyways and basement stairwells‚ who have only one goal in mind‚ and that is to part the poor unsuspecting individual who happened to stumble in off the street‚ from his money. While this may be true in some cases‚ the reality is that over 36 million people in the United States play
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Diversity and Avoiding Conflict PM/581 Diversity and Avoiding Conflict JPMorgan Chase is a leading financial institution throughout the world. Purchasing Bank One Corp. for $58 billion created a need for new software for both companies after a successful merger. Bank One officially merged with Chase Bank in 2004. The merged entity ranked as the number two financial institution in hot pursuit of Citigroup’s number one position (JPMorgan Chase & Co.‚ 2004). With this project spearheading
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Avoiding Errors in the Decision Making Process Decision-making is a fine art. Many people struggle with the decision itself; where as other have a difficult time coping with the decision they have made. The balance of the two requires experience and courage. In my opinion‚ based off of my experiences‚ studies‚ and readings‚ I believe that I would be a very strong candidate for someone to look to for guidance in the conflict resolution process. However‚ to minimize errors the decision maker needs
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------------------------------------------------- Time Management ------------------------------------------------- Time management is the most important asset one can have these days‚ with the collapse of traditional values any person can find himself running a few‚ parallel different lives all at once. Time management is not about doing too many things in less time but doing right things at right time in right way. How you manage your time is part of your personal agenda To utilise the available time in optimum manner to
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the author incorporated in his entry. One of these techniques include highlighting a particular action that speaks much louder than any word ever can. For example‚ the action that the author shinned upon was the man‚ who was going to be deceased‚ avoiding to step in a puddle of water. This method leads to the consumption that a perfectly good man (health
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CASE STUDY: AVOIDING THE ALIGNMENT TRAP IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Executive Summary An alarming pattern has surfaced in that many companies are concentrating on alignment and are finding that their performance is either declining or moving sideways. Companies are focusing on the wrong solutions with respect to their Information Technology problems‚ resulting in severe bottlenecks to growth. Companies need to learn how to break out of the trap and build IT organizations that allow for growth
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