First Catch Your Business Assets: Map Their IT Dependencies to Strategize for Business Value

ID Number: G00169622

6 October 2009

John Mahoney

We identify eight core business asset types and analyze how much they depend on IT to identify IT organization priorities for contributing to strategic business transformation and supporting ongoing activities.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

2.0

Why the Relationship Between Business Assets and Technology Is Important

3.0

Defining a Business Asset

4.0

Group Core Business Assets Into Eight Types to Examine Their Relationship to IT

4.1		Brand
4.2		Information
4.3		Materials and Locations
4.4		Money
4.5		People
4.6		Processes
4.7		Relationships
4.8		Technology

5.0

The Strategic Impact of the Relationship Between Business Assets and Technology

5.1

Method for Assessing the Relationship of Business Assets and IT

5.1.1		IT Dependence Factors
5.1.2		Business Transforming or Sustaining Factors

6.0

How IT and Business Leaders Should Strategize for the Relationship of Business Assets and IT

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Scoring Model for Relationship of Business Assets to IT

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Dependency Between Business Assets and IT

	Figure 2.	Focus Investment in Business Assets in Relation to Business Value

Business and IT Alignment
Business Value of IT
IT's Impact on Strategy and Operations
CIO and IT Leadership

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