Aligning IT and Business Strategies

This course shares fundamental tips that will help you bridge technical divides in organizations, by putting shared objectives first and, by using a better understanding of the business's strategic needs and enhanced communication skills to succeed.

Too often, the business and IT sides of organizations don't see eye to eye. This course shares some fundamental tips that can help you bridge this divide, no matter which side you may find yourself on. In this course, Aligning IT and Business Strategies you'll discover how to better understand and express the strategic goals of organizations. First, you'll learn how to describe and analyze your organization's value chain, in order to understand the impact it can have on the decisions your organization makes. Next, you'll see how effective collaboration strategies can help you bridge knowledge gaps and differences in backgrounds. Finally, you'll explore how taking an enterprise architecture approach to your organization's planning can result in better alignment between your IT and business strategies. By the end of this course, you'll be better prepared to collaborate with others in your organization, regardless of their technical acumen, in order to achieve success.