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IT & Business Alignment with the
ICEX Knowledge Kit
PDF file and Word Templates

Executive Summary and Table of Contents

Align IT and business strategies to effectively allocate resources and realize better value on investments.

The ICEX Knowledge Kit™ provides tools, frameworks, and activities to assist companies of any size and at any stage of the strategy review and implementation process make well aligned IT investments. Each of the kit’s four modules offers a strategic overview, real-world examples, and links to easy-to-use, customizable Word templates.

This 47-page comprehensive kit is divided into four modules:

Understanding Business Strategy – Learn how IT investments can drive and support corporate goals
Identifying Enabling Opportunities – Recognize industry trends and evaluate if an opportunity fits with your company
Making the Business Case – Effectively describe IT initiatives to management including associated benefits, cost and risk
Making Investment Decisions - Evaluate stand alone projects and those within a portfolio using proven frameworks

The premium version of this kit includes both the ICEX Knowledge Kit™ and Janco's Internet and IT Position Descriptions HandiGuide (PDF).

ABOUT ICEX

ICEX, Inc. is an innovative research and content management firm that delivers objective, actionable research and world-class leading-practice exchanges, to help organizations make better decisions on leveraging information technology. ICEX’s dynamic knowledge repositories and powerful knowledge networks enable its clients to become thought leaders and solution providers. For more information, please visit www.icex.com.

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