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Introduction
1 Why study IT value
2 Aligning IT with business strategy
Business operating models
3 An overview of business operating models Project descriptions posted
4

Unification model

Guest speaker: Peter Weill, MIT Sloan CISR

Case: UPS
5

Diversification model

Case: Pacific Life

 Project applications due
6

Replication model

Case: 7-Eleven Japan
7

Coordination model

Case: Merrill Lynch

 Team project description due
IT decision making
8 The data driven organization
9

Two significant challenges in healthcare IT

Guest speaker: John Glaser, CIO Partners Healthcare System
10 IT governance: decisions, rights and accountability
11

IT investment

Case: Colway Stores

 Group case assignment
12

Project governance

Guest speaker: Joe Spagnoletti, CIO Campbell Soup

Case: Campbell Soup
Business architecture and change management
13 Enterprise architecture
14

Maturing enterprise architecture

Case: Southwest Airlines
15

Managing change

Guest speaker: Cyrus Gibson, MIT Sloan CISR

Case: Aetna
Managing IT and business risk
16

How firms drive value from IT risk management

Guest speaker: George Westerman, MIT Sloan CISR
17

IT outsourcing

Case: Dow Chemical
18 Business process outsourcing
19 IT and globalization
IT-driven business innovation and agility
20 IT and business innovation
21

IT savvy

Guest speaker: Peter Weill, Chairman, MIT Sloan CISR

Case: Lenox Insurance
22

IT and business agility

Guest speakers: Locatel Plenia
23 The future of IT and digital organizations
24 Group presentations, course wrap-up