CA's Swainson Tries To 'Reset The Agenda' On IT Management

Vikingod · Apr 24, 2007, 02:26 PM

Source: InformationWeek
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At this week's CA World, CEO John Swainson pitched IT management and governance as the next breakthrough business discipline -- in the same way supply-chain management earned a new level of respect through the success of companies like Wal-Mart.

That's a tough sell to business folks who associate "IT governance" with the drudgery of Sarbanes Oxley more than with breakthrough business innovations.

Yet it's not a preposterous notion that there's fresh attention being given to running IT better. Companies across industries are attacking woes like server and datacenter sprawl -- look at the central role that IT consolidation and improvement plays in Citigroup's recently announced restructuring, which promises to wrench billions of dollars from IT alone.

Apr 24, 2007, 02:26 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	CA's Swainson Tries To 'Reset The Agenda' On IT Management Source: InformationWeek __________ At this week's CA World, CEO John Swainson pitched IT management and governance as the next breakthrough business discipline -- in the same way supply-chain management earned a new level of respect through the success of companies like Wal-Mart. That's a tough sell to business folks who associate "IT governance" with the drudgery of Sarbanes Oxley more than with breakthrough business innovations. Yet it's not a preposterous notion that there's fresh attention being given to running IT better. Companies across industries are attacking woes like server and datacenter sprawl -- look at the central role that IT consolidation and improvement plays in Citigroup's recently announced restructuring, which promises to wrench billions of dollars from IT alone.