6 ways to better align IT with the business

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Computerworld This Week Apr 25, 2016 6 ways to better align IT with the business IT and business have struggled over the idea of alignment for decades, and not always successfully. Members of the staff of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research have come up with what they think is a better way for business and IT to collaborate. Will it work? 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