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128. What defines best in class?
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129. What are the Roles and Responsibilities for each team member and its leadership? Where is this documented?
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130. What scope do you want your strategy to cover?
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131. Are approval levels defined for contracts and supplements to contracts?
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132. What are the record-keeping requirements of Business IT alignment activities?
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Add up total points for this section: _____ = Total points for this section
Divided by: ______ (number of statements answered) = ______ Average score for this section
Transfer your score to the Business IT alignment Index at the beginning of the Self-Assessment.
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:
INTENT: Gather the correct data. Measure the current performance and evolution of the situation.
In my belief, the answer to this question is clearly defined:
5 Strongly Agree
4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
1. What are the estimated costs of proposed changes?
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2. Is it possible to estimate the impact of unanticipated complexity such as wrong or failed assumptions, feedback, etcetera on proposed reforms?
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3. What would be a real cause for concern?
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4. What are the operational costs after Business IT alignment deployment?
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5. What measurements are possible, practicable and meaningful?
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6. When are costs are incurred?
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7. Does management have the right priorities among projects?
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8. Why a Business IT alignment focus?
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9. What does losing customers cost your organization?
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10. Does a Business IT alignment quantification method exist?
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11. Among the Business IT alignment product and service cost to be estimated, which is considered hardest to estimate?
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12. What methods are feasible and acceptable to estimate the impact of reforms?
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13. How can you manage cost down?
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14. How will measures be used to manage and adapt?
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15. Are you able to realize any cost savings?
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16. Have you made assumptions about the shape of the future, particularly its impact on your customers and competitors?
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17. How are costs allocated?
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18. Which measures and indicators matter?
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19. What are your customers expectations and measures?
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20. How are measurements made?
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21. Are there any easy-to-implement alternatives to Business IT alignment? Sometimes other solutions are available that do not require the cost implications of a full-blown project?
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22. What is your Business IT alignment quality cost segregation study?
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23. What causes mismanagement?
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24. How do your measurements capture actionable Business IT alignment information for use in exceeding your customers expectations and securing your customers engagement?
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25. How sensitive must the Business IT alignment strategy be to cost?
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26. How will success or failure be measured?
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27. What are the costs of delaying Business IT alignment action?
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28. What tests verify requirements?
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29. Are Business IT alignment vulnerabilities categorized and prioritized?
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30. Who pays the cost?
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31. What details are required of the Business IT alignment cost structure?
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32. What disadvantage does this cause for the user?
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33. Are missed Business IT alignment opportunities costing your organization money?
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34. How do you measure efficient delivery of Business IT alignment services?
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35. What is the cause of any Business IT alignment gaps?
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36. How do you prevent mis-estimating cost?
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37. What are allowable costs?
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38. When should you bother with diagrams?
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39. What causes extra work or rework?
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40. When a disaster occurs, who gets priority?
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41. How will you measure success?
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42. Where can you go to verify the info?
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43. How can you measure Business IT alignment in a systematic way?
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44. What are your key Business IT alignment organizational performance measures, including key short and longer-term financial measures?
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45. Are indirect costs charged to the Business IT alignment program?
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46. How do you verify your resources?
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47. How do you verify and