IBM’s IT Strategy
May 5, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant
Information Week’s Global CIO Blog by John Foley in an interview with IBM’s CIO Mark Hennessy in the blog titled “IBM CIO’s Strategy: Run, Transform, Innovate”, identifies that there are still more gain that IBM can achieve by operational efficiencies.
Mark Hennessy also says that IBM’s IT team supports the company’s strategy in three broad ways:
1) by running and optimizing IBM’s internal IT operations,
2) by working with IBM business units in support of their objectives
3) by facilitating company-wide collaboration, innovation, and technology requirements across 170 countries
IBM has managed to consolidate roles of multiple CIO in support of IMB’s globalization strategy ie one integrated enterprise.
IBM doesn’t think of its IT organization as being merely an IT department. “We call it BT and IT,” Hennessy says, giving business transformation equal billing to the software, systems, and services side of its mission. I think that’s critical in today’s environment where IT does not just provide tactical infrastructure support but plays a strategic role in the growth of the company.
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