This teaching case provides a practical illustration of the challenges in setting up an IT-based business transformation. The central focus is on the business case development for a new corporate IT platform and the portfolios of business unit initiatives. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia sought to improve its customer service and reduce its costs with a new business platform. The case discus...

This article presents a framework for creating a shared vision between an organization’s CIO and its top management team (TMT). Such a vision is the key to aligning the organization’s information systems (IS) strategy with its business strategy. We describe how this shared vision is facilitated by six visioning mechanisms and identify five distinct configurations of visioning mechanisms being u...

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book laughing at the cio a parable and prescription for it leadership. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no...

Be careful what you ask for. Most of us have heard this familiar saying. IT leaders now can testify as to its veracity. CIOs have lamented for years that they were not invited to a “seat at the table” with their senior-level colleagues. It appears that what they wished for is happening. The “2002 State of the CIO” survey conducted by CIO magazine and reported in their March 1, 2002, issue conta...

There is a wide array of research on the topic of the chief executive officer (CEO)-chief information officer (CIO) relationship that affects the strategic use of information technology (IT) (i.e., strategic alignment). However, the literature about divergent perception of IT expectation between the two groups, depending on their emphasis of innovation is sparse. This study fulfils this gap. Qu...