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Smarten Up, and Feel the IT Love by Susan Cramm - To exploit technology, companies need a combination of IT-smart business leaders and business-smart IT leaders.

If you want to make this a goal for your organization, start by baselining and benchmarking current performance. To do so, survey your business and IT leaders to assess how they:

  1. Perceive the importance and value of IT
  2. Manage the IT asset
  3. View the quality of the IT-business partnership

I conducted a survey last year to get a handle on the current state of the IT and Business Leader relationship, and I had a hunch that the results would differ depending on the "IT smarts" of an organization. In this survey, "IT-smarts" was determined by the survey respondents, based on an A through F self-grading system.

Here's what I found:

Average: 5 (1 vote)
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