Business/IT Alignment

Research Assistant, Research This… Thank you for doing so.

A comprehensive list of ways IT can be a help to practicing and increasing what Corporate Social Responsibility fully means.

This post will be submitted to Whatis.com in response to their 8-28-2008 email entitled “Let us research an IT topic for you”. An excerpt from the email is indented.

Celebrate Labor Day by letting us do the labor

Great would be a related reply in the form of a comment with a link to information that will help any number of people or organizations enhance the application of corporate social responsibility, intrinsically and pervasively, from various perspectives (to for example perhaps help our world and all within be increasingly wiser, more peaceful, healthier and wealthier).

What does or can Corporate Social Responsibility really mean and how can IT be a catalyst for related progress?

What drives you towards staying with your employer?

Applying a positive spin to the quote below, it may be that good people stay with good employers because of things like having a good boss and work/life balance. What drives you towards staying with your employer?

Results from the recent SearchCIO-Midmarket.com salary survey show that 30% of survey respondents left their last job due to “dissatisfaction with management.” This beat out company downsizings or mergers (18%), a change in a role or position (15%) or work/life balance (14%).

Framework revised 2008; is it helping, or can it?

Perhaps the 2008 revision of MOF can help improve the inherent quality of your organization, for example perhaps relative to service management functions associated with Business and IT alignment, IT Governance, Compliance and Risk Management.

As noted within MOF’s 5.1 GRC SMF document, certainly this is true…

“Governance, risk, and compliance are potentially far-reaching and interwoven activities that require participation by everyone in the organization”

If you have not already, perhaps do some related reading and thinking. Feel free to also share whether the revision has been a help to your organization, or whether you believe it can be in the future. Thank you for doing so.

Have a great weekend.