Summary
All CIOs wrestle with which processes, technologies, organizations, and roles should be consistent across the organization (enterprise) and which should be specific to a business unit or geography (local). This question is at the heart of what functions should be in a shared services organization. The age of the customer complicates this, as technology management's customers are performing more traditional IT functions requiring a different role for IT. The first report in this series discussed the importance of this issue and what is typically enterprise or local. This second report describes the steps for reaching decisions, including the principles, criteria, and roles needed to define and then implement enterprise or local elements.
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