Designing an IT organization to best meet the needs of your business is a never-ending task. Just when you think you have the optimal design, factors such as changes in the business, new technologies, or new ways to work come along and mess up the success. CIO Insight recently published a slideshow of the Nine Ways to Better Organize Your IT Department. Their suggestions, based on IT consultant Janco Associates research, are:
1. Chain of Command Limit your direct reports. There should be no more than five to seven.
2. Lock Step Design the IT organizational structure to parallel that of your overall company’s.
3. Blueprint for Success Create a career path that allows IT specialists to take on enterprise-operational roles.
4. Vital Components Incorporate operational management, quality control and customer-service roles that provide direct feedback to you.
5. Potent Mix Integrate strategic planning with security and business continuity.
6. Silo Smashers Create positions that act as liaisons to non-IT pros, to elevate organization-wide operations and productivity.
7. Personal Touch Stay in close touch with HR on human-asset planning and training
8. Watchful Eye Assign a team to stay on top of industry trends, as well as the competition’s moves.
9. Sharing Intelligence If there are independent IT functions in other departments outside of your managerial duties, stay in close touch so you know what technologies they’re using.
How would you redesign about your IT function to make it more effective?
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