Best Practice Report

What Does IT Do For The Business?

The Five Essential Metrics For Managing IT

Robert Whiteley III
Sep 29, 2008

Summary

Providing understandable and relevant metrics to business leaders is an integral part of the transformation from traditional IT to service-oriented business technology. However, many IT metrics lack clear relevance to business outcomes and are difficult for business leaders to understand. IT must adopt the business-centric metrics, such as alignment of IT investment to business strategy, to clearly demonstrate the contributions infrastructure and operations professionals make to business success.

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