Rise to the Challenge: Three Dimensions for Competitive IT Organization | Organization and Change | Business Integration and Optimization

Information technology (IT) organization design is at the top of many executives’ list of critical priorities — although they may not realize it. Effective IT organization design can help put business strategies into action, allocate resources where they can be most effective, foster alignment across business units and improve decision-making. Companies face a dizzying array of options while designing an IT organization that can support and respond to the unique needs of the business.

3D IT, the latest installment in a multipart series on critical issues facing today’s IT function, presents a new framework for designing an effective IT organization, based on comprehensive considerations of the three major dimensions IT organization strategies should be built upon:

Centralization versus Decentralization
In-house versus Outsourced
Integrated versus Independent

Read more about the strengths and weaknesses of different options in the dimensions above by downloading the article below.