Yesterday the CIO Agenda blog on Computer Business Review featured a post, CIOs must prepare for the ‘new normal’ that discusses a recent report from McKinsey Quarterly, Time to Raise the CIO’s Game: A Call to Action for European Companies.

Another interesting, related post was featured earlier this week on CIO.com – BPM is the CIO route to CEO.

Both posts highlight one common theme— Businesses will not be successful if they do not align technology with the business—CIO goals with CEO goals, strategy with execution.

The Computer Business Review post cites key objectives that CIOs must achieve in order to succeed in today’s uncertain business environment. First, align business with IT to improve collaboration and enhance performance of the overall organization and second, mind the performance gap to make sure you’re getting the most out of your IT spending.

The CIO.com post points out that business process management (BPM) is the very tool that enables this alignment and states that good BPM projects represent the perfect example of business and IT together “working towards efficiency, increased margins, new markets and an improved product.”

BPM technology certainly offers value that far exceeds its costs—and it is virtually guaranteed that both business and IT will benefit from the investment.

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