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		<title>Industry is (finally) catching on to BITA</title>
		<link>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/industry-is-finally-catching-on-to-bita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, I identified a growing business trend affecting the way technology professionals engage with their business counterparts.  This shift in expectations and attitudes involved a variety of interactions at the strategic, tactical and operational level.  It was clear, however, that business culture was undergoing a change and that this change would have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=110&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The One Service Every Consultant Should Offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 15:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business/IT Alignment is all about making sure that management decisions related to IT are grounded in solid, identifiable business strategies and priorities.  A BITA engagement typically involves working with organizations to assist management with the data, information and assessments required for sound management decisions.  The article attached below from Michael McLaughin at RainToday suggests that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=105&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of IT &#8211; 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it’s officially the New Year and along with well-intentioned but insanely optimistic personal resolutions, we are also treated to a vast list of predictions for the coming year.  Typically, these predictions focus on news, disasters, sports, celebrities or politics. I’ve been waiting for some industry specific oracles, but generally the most that appears from the IT gurus is focused on technology tools and toys. I don’t have any earth shattering personal resolutions to share this year, since they are all the same as last year.  I do, however, feel compelled to share my predictions about the future of the IT industry as a whole – not technology and tools, but demand, careers and the evolving role of IT in society as a whole. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=98&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Share Your Work Life Stories!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you interact with the various life domains that you experience each day? Do you carry experiences from one to another, or are you able to segregate each domain so it remains untouched by the others? We are used to thinking of life in segregated &#8216;domains&#8217;. You have a &#8216;family&#8217; life, a &#8216;work&#8217; life, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=96&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You’ve Come a Long Way, BA-BA</title>
		<link>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/you%e2%80%99ve-come-a-long-way-ba-ba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BITA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month I had the privilege of presenting at the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) conference in Winnipeg on the topic of Business/IT Alignment. I wanted to focus the presentation on a topic that was relevant to business analysts, so the title was: Strategic Business Analysis: An Essential Skill for Business/IT Alignment. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=89&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business/IT Alignment and Twitter</title>
		<link>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/businessit-alignment-and-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alignment Intro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business/IT Alignment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the Business/IT Alignment posts will now automatically be tweeted as well! Not on Twitter? You can join at &#8211; www.twitter.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=86&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is a company&#8217;s core competency?</title>
		<link>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/what-is-a-companys-core-competency/</link>
		<comments>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/what-is-a-companys-core-competency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another fascinating question from one of my strategy network forums: What is a company&#8217;s core competency? It sounds easy enough, but from some of the responses provided, it seems clear to me that there&#8217;s a lot of confusion around what a company&#8217;s core competency is, let alone how to go about identifying it! This could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=82&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media vs Social Networking?</title>
		<link>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/social-media-vs-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alignblog.wordpress.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A question was raised recently in a professional forum that I thought deserved some further discussion.  The question involved how to get executive sponsors to use &#8220;social media&#8221; for communications, and whether anyone had quantifiable data to assist with this concept.  Although it was an interesting question,  I suspect from the lack of responses that there aren&#8217;t any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=77&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Leadership</title>
		<link>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/the-art-of-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great quote contributed by one of my sisters, which really needs no further comment: &#8220;The art of leadership is to work with the natural grain of the particular wood of humanity which comes to hand.&#8221; John Adair<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=76&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Poll!  iPhone Transit Appl for your city</title>
		<link>http://alignblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/new-poll-iphone-transit-appl-for-your-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SKA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK time for a new poll &#8211; would you use this app if it were available for your city?  Please send this to anyone you think would be interested!  If you could add your city as well in the &#8217;Other&#8217; line, that would be helpful information for trending!  Thanks for your assistance.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alignblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5582651&amp;post=73&amp;subd=alignblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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