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“Organizational issues, more so than technology solutions, are key to successfully incorporating e-business into your overall corporate strategy.”

— Peter McAteer, Vice President and Managing Director, Organizational and Workforce Planning, ePractices, Giga Information Group

It’s too easy to spend all your time wrapped up in technology challenges. Technology alone will not create business success.

In order to be successful in today’s highly competitive world created by the Internet, companies must decide the best way to incorporate e-business into their overall corporate strategy. Organizations are not simply faced with the challenges of implementing IT solutions, but must determine how IT solutions can best be leveraged to complement and enhance their unique business strengths and culture. Organizational issues — more so than technical solutions — are the keys to success.

Giga Information Group’s Organizing for e-Business: Developing & Implementing Effective Organizational Models focuses on the organizational issues that must be considered when making this transformation to an e-business — including, which e-business model is most appropriate for the company, how an e-business strategy will impact the organization and culture, how to measure the success of the new business model, how staffing, skills and training will be transitioned, and many more critical topics concerning organizational models and e-business.

Organizing for e-Business will enable you to:

• Ensure your organizational structure is one that will enable a successful e-business project implementation.
• Make decisions with confidence in reorganizing your staff and internal structure to better improve your opportunity to complete your e-business implementation on time and within budget.
• Adopt the best practices identified to attract and keep your key IT staff through your e-business project implementation and beyond

Brainstorm with your peers at the Executive Exchanges
Providing peer-to-peer idea sharing and led by Giga advisors, Executive Exchanges enable you to tackle a particular problem and learn how others have addressed the issue. Potential discussion topics include:

• The changing role of the CIO
• Organizing a startup
• The e-employee
• Getting a seat at the strategy table
• Validating your strategy
• Aligning business and IT strategy
• Measuring risk
• Security vs. risk: What’s the difference?
• Skill-set risks