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Gregg Powers
SENIOR MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
Gregg Powers is a Senior Management Consultant at CIBER with 32+ years of experience in Information Technology management across both public sector and commercial organizations. He leads the Organizational Alignment practice and has recently focused on assisting organizations in improving organizational performance and efficiency through improving alignment between business and IT organizations through organizational assessments, representative governance frameworks, business strategic planning, and IT strategic planning.
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Part IV – Avoiding IT Strategy “Shelf Ware Syndrome”
Gregg Powers, Senior Management Consultant : 07 September 2011 / 3:24 PM : 0 
In the last blog entry, we looked at some of the ways in which business drivers are employed as a part of IT strategy development. In this 4th in a series of 10 blog entries covering relevant and aligned IT Strategy, we explore in more detail, some of the ways to prevent an IT Strategic Plan from becoming another piece of “shelf ware” – a document that once created, spends the majority of its time on the shelf.
Organizations going through the effort to develop an IT Strategic Plan must mak...
Posted in Enterprise Integration & IT Strategy on 07 September 2011
Tagged: IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment performance management
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Business Drivers and IT Strategy
Gregg Powers, Senior Management Consultant : 20 January 2010 / 12:13 PM : 5
In the last blog entry, we looked at some of the first principles of IT strategy – things that should be addressed within an IT strategy document. In this blog entry, we explore in more detail, some of the fundamental aspects of tying IT strategy to the business. A key relationship that develops over time, although not immediately recognized by IT executives, is IT organizations inability to objectively define their value proposition are often viewed as an expense to be minimized. Hence, there is a linkage between the view of IT within the organization as an expense and IT’s inability to define its value.
Posted in Enterprise Integration & IT Strategy on 20 January 2010
Tagged: IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment
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II - IT Strategy First Principles
Gregg Powers, Senior Management Consultant : 18 September 2009 / 4:20 PM : 0
In the last blog entry, we looked at the need for IT Strategy. In this blog we will look at some of the foundational elements and perspectives used in development of a good IT strategy.
Google ‘IT strategic plan’ – go ahead and try it. Once you find some ...
Posted in Enterprise Integration & IT Strategy on 18 September 2009
Tagged: Business Value IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value
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I - The Need for IT Strategy
Gregg Powers, Senior Management Consultant : 05 August 2009 / 4:58 PM : 1 
This represents the first in a series of 10 blogs designed to give a bottom up approach to looking at IT Strategy.
Have you heard some of the old adages related to strategy and planning?
"If we fail to plan then we plan to fail"
"If we do...
Posted in Enterprise Integration & IT Strategy on 05 August 2009
Tagged: Business Value IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value
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