Featured Research Paper  2009 Baseline/BTM 500
The Value of Convergence
Enterprises that have achieved business-technology convergence can respond nimbly to change and use their superior performance to leapfrog over less-agile competitors and position themselves for future growth. There is no doubt about it: To meet strategic goals, companies are drilling down to core management processes as a means of delivering results to the business. By exercising effective governance over these goals and the technology that underlies them, companies are able to maintain competitive advantage, increase operational efficiency and improve financial performance-making these objectives part of an organization’s DNA. 
Featured Journal 
The Transformation Imperative This issue contains strategic research and leadership know-how from academic experts, CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs, both the private and public sector focused on transformation, along with an executive agenda that highlights what is needed behind the scenes to bring it all together. The current global marketplace demands that organizations act in new ways not only to survive, but also to grow. Organizations must simultaneously be innovative with products, processes and business models, abandon activities that no longer make sense, and perform the activities they continue as efficiently as possible. This journal highlights the need of a management framework that prescribes the necessary organizational structures, decision-making processes and information from the board to the project team. 
Featured Research Series  Business Technology Disconnect
Approaching a Solution
THE INCREASING BUSINESS FOCUS that’s demanded of IT is having a profound effect upon the function. Some of the timeless challenges faced five, ten, and even twenty years ago—like delivering new technology faster and more efficiently—continue to be crucial. However, the growing business focus of technology today requires a new approach to meet new challenges.
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