This page provides documents and links that are relevant in the bITa arena.

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Documents:

Business IT Alignment

• IT/Business Alignment: Is It an Option or Is It Mandatory?, report written by Jan Duffy (IDC, January 2002), Price $ 1,500. You can find the report here.
• SAMM - Self assessment tool from IDC, product overview
  
• Business-IT Alignment: A Methodology for IT Strategic Planning, written by senior consultant Steve Andriole of the Cutter Consortium Business-IT Alignment Service, this authoritative report is an unmatched IT strategic planning tool.
  
• Enablers and inhibitors of Business-IT Alignment by Jerry N. Luftman, School of Management, Stevens Institute of Technology (jluftman@stevens-tech.edu), Raymond Papp, Department of MIS, Central Connecticut State University (pappr@ccsu.edu) and Tom Brier, IBM Advanced Institute (tombr@us.ibm.com)
  
• Business-IT Alignment: Business-IT alignment - Understanding your position, an executive strategy report, written by Thomas E. Curtin, consulting faculty member at the IBM Advanced Business Institute. Download complete executive strategy report PDF
  
• MOF SAMPLE - Microsoft Operations Framework is Microsoft's structured approach to help customers to achieve operational excellence on the Microsoft platform.
  
• ITIL & MOF - Overview of ITIL & MOF

  
  

  Links:

  http://www.cio.com/analyst/123101_idc.html

  BS 15000 standard is:
  http://www.bs15000.org.uk

  ITIL
  http://www.itil-itsm-world.com
  http://www.itil.co.uk
  http://www.itilworld.com
  http://www.itsmf.com
  http://www.ogc.gov.uk
  http://www.quintacademy.com
  http://www.axiossystems.com/resources/papers/itil/

  Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)
  http://www.microsoft.com/business/services/mcsmof.asp

  Certification
  http://www.exin.nl
  http://www.exin-exams.com/exinanditil.htm
  http://www.exin-exams.com/isplbase.htm
  http://www.exin-exams.com/dsdm.htm
  http://www.bcs.org.uk/iseb

  DSDM
  http://www.dsdm.org

  ASL
  http://www.notyetasl.com

  CMM
  http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi
  http://cais.isworld.org/articles/1-11/article.htm
  http://www.sei.cmu.edu
  http://www.espi.org

  itSM CMM
  http://www.serc.nl

  Project management
  http://www.pmi.org
  http://www.prince2.org.uk
  http://www.ogc.gov.uk/prince

  Sponsor links
  http://www.sun.com/executives/sunjournal/v5n2/feature5.html