As strategic alignment became a buzzword in management, IT departments find themselves increasingly under pressure to make sure each IT investment delivers a strategic contribution while keeping within the traditional budget and time constraints. How then, can IT effectively and efficiently manage these daunting tasks?

The answer lies in taking the first step and moving away from managing IT purely from an IT/technical perspective. The crux of the issue is learning to look beyond the obvious IT advantages of a project and select, manage and design them according to the organization’s overall business strategy.

Similarly, IT Management tools need to address the fundamental issues:

The Artemis solution combines the Balanced Scorecard and Portfolio & Project Management in a “Strategy to Results”™ framework, enabling IT departments to manage projects and investments on both a technical level (budgeting, lifecycle management, resource allocation and scheduling) and strategic level (improved strategic visibility and portfolio analysis & arbitration).

Find out more about how our IT Management and Balanced Scorecard Solutions can improve the strategic alignment of your IT investments in 2006!