Despite evidence of a positive relationship between IT investments and firm performance, results still vary across firms and performance measures. We explore two organizational explanations for this variation: differences in firms' IT investment allocations and IT capabilities. We develop a...

Although IT portfolio management has been a best practice for some time, many companies are still getting returns from IT investments that are below their potential. New studies show that a measureable premium can be gained by implementing a set of interlocking business practices and processes,...

Information technology is major investment for most enterprises and constitutes a portfolio of investments. Just like any other investment portfolio, the IT portfolio must be balanced to achieve alignment with business strategy and the desired combination of short and long term pay off. This...

During the period of 2000 to 2006 MIT CISR has conducted several research projects on IT Portfolios, IT Savvy and firm performance. Just as investors have portfolios of financial investments to address their multiple investment objectives, firms have portfolios of information technology (IT)...