Edmundo Tovar Caro

The Importance of IT Strategic Demand Management in Achieving the Objectives of the Strategic Business Planning

This paper describes demand management and its strategic planning life cycle as related to a companypsilas businesses. A key to good demand management is to know the demand management process life cycle, starting with strategic planning. Strategic planning is important for aligning an enterprisepsilas IT and business goals in order to successfully complete projects on schedule and on budget. This way effective strategic demand management will be feasible. To achieve these goals, senior business executives must liaise well with the CIO responsible for managing IT.CIOs are currently playing a very important role in decision-making of the companys business and are responsible for strategic initiatives to help with strategic planning and identifying opportunities for automation to improve business processes and reduce costs of investment in IT.

Reusable and interoperative specifications for OERs based on Standards

The present article shows an investigation made about Standards and Specifications of e-Learning contents, their later selection and analysis of the ones having reusability and interoperability features in Open Educational Resources which are the base of the application purpose in resource development on the instructional design stages and evaluation in already developed resources.

IT, Senior Executives and Board of Directors Contribute to the Success of the Business: Implicates on the IT Demand Process--Life Cycle

This paper describes the importance of the Information Technology (IT), senior business executives and board of directors that contribute to the success of the business, as these senior executives are implicates on the IT demand process life cycle, to future business success driven from within the IT governance. The CEO is a company’s top executive and handles the business of government. Next in importance to the CEO is the CIO. The CIO liaises with the CEO, working on the best strategies to develop the business and make better decisions. They are supported by the CFO, the head of business finance, the CHRO, who plays an important role in the provision of adequate human resources for the business, and the COO, who is responsible for operations that are performed within the company. These senior executives are a great team. If they liaise effectively, it will be easier to achieve business objectives, yielding a high added value for the company. The Board of directors has the ultimate executive responsibility for the formulation and implementation of the group’s business strategy and for sustainable value delivery to its stakeholders.

Description of the structure of the IT demand management process framework

Abstract IT demand management is considered as one of the key IT governance processes for business success and that actually it is not managed properly from a strategic point of view for achieving the objectives of the business in the organizations, this paper presents the structure of the IT demand management process framework, called integral IT demand management process framework. This description provides a strategic level view of the phases, main activities, and sub-activities of each IT demand management phase. This framework is the result of the combination of conceptual models and standards related to IT and business currently there is a lack of frameworks or methodological guides to assist senior executives and IT professionals in the organization to manage the IT demand and help them to bridge the gap that exists between business and IT. To evaluate the proposed framework, we conducted an additional survey taken by forty two respondents. The contribution of our research is twofold: IT artifact design. Second is the positive IT artefact evaluation.

Designing an IT Artifact: Framework for the Entire Process of IT Demand Management

This paper presents a proposed IT artifact, denominated framework for the entire process of IT Demand Management (IT-DM), which identifies the phases, main activities, and sub-activities of each of the phases of the IT-DM viewed from a strategic level view. This framework is the result of the combination of conceptual models and standards related to IT and business because currently there is a lack of frameworks or methodological guides to assist senior executives and IT professionals of the organization to manage the IT demand and help them to solve the gap that exists between business and IT. We also conducted a supplementary survey incorporating forty two respondents to evaluate our proposed. Our work has a twofold contribution: First, is the IT artifact design. Second is the evaluation positive of the IT artifact.