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  • Engaging Non-IT Executives in IT Infrastructure Decisions 
    Fonstad, Nils O.; Subramani, Mani (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2008-07-01)
    This case study describes how information technology (IT) managers from Insurance Co. successfully engaged non-IT executives in IT infrastructure investment decisions. This enabled IT and non-IT stakeholder groups to take ...
  • Credit Suisse: Engineering a Global Financial Services Business 
    Ross, Jeanne W.; Kwan, Ernest; Levy, Ari (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management,, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2010-12-01)
    In 2010, Credit Suisse was attempting to leverage its global scale by integrating key business processes across geographies and business units. The IT unit, under Global CIO Karl Landert, assumed a pivotal role in enabling ...
  • Global IT Management: Structuring For Scale, Responsiveness, and Innovation 
    Kien, Sia Siew; Soh, Christina; Weill, Peter (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2010-02-01)
    As businesses expand globally and reconfigure their value chains, they must cope with a variety of complex challenges in managing their IT resources. This research examines how enterprises attempt to simultaneously achieve ...
  • Plenia Locatel Group: Globalizing from Venezuela 
    Gibson, Cyrus; Levy, Ari (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2009-05-01)
    In 2009 the founders and top executives of Plenia Locatel Group, a retail business in Venezuela specializing in health care products and services, were planning a global expansion of the business. Founded by two close ...
  • Developing a Common Language About IT Risk Management 
    Westerman, George; Hunter, Richard (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2009-06-01)
    Although IT risks can have wide-ranging business consequences, few executives feel comfortable discussing IT risk management. It doesn’t have to be this way. Executive-level tradeoffs around IT risk are managerial, not ...
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