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    Redisigning the IT Organization for the Information Age
    Information Systems Management
    Monday, June 01, 1998
    Volume 15, Issue 3

    Bernard H. Boar
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    Bernard H. Boaris an information business strategist for NCR. This article is based on a chapter from his book, Strategic Thinking for Information Technology (New York: John Wiley, 1997). His other books include The Art of Strategic Information Technology, Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies, and Cost-Effective Strategies for Client/Server Systems, all available from Wiley.

      

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    Organizational design is a critical facilitator of strategic information age initiatives. Yet traditional IT structures are misaligned with the information age because they cannot cope with continual change and the rapid horizontal introduction and utilization of gregarious information technologies. An organizational structure that combines the ideas of minibusinesses and the internal market-place can provide a dynamic balance between stability and productivity and flexibility and innovation, replace a history of episodic and misguided restructuring with continuous restructuring, and position the IT organization to fulfill its strategic potential.



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