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Editorial

September 29, 2025
Kip Fanta

IT Can’t Stay an Order Taker: Become a Strategic Partner

IT strategic partner is the role every modern technology team should aim for. Too often, IT is treated as an order taker—fulfilling requests without shaping outcomes. That approach limits influence, wastes resources, and erodes trust. By shifting from order taking to strategic partnering, IT leaders move beyond delivery to co-create business value. Using models like BRM’s Relationship Maturity Model, teams can assess their current role and intentionally build toward trusted advisor and strategic partner levels, where IT has a real seat at the table

Business IT Alignment, IT Strategy, Strategic Advisor

Editorial

September 22, 2025
Kip Fanta

Stop Aligning, Start Converging: Why IT Business Convergence Matters

IT and business alignment isn’t enough. True progress comes from IT business convergence—shared ownership, shared results, and one strategy. Learn why convergence outperforms alignment and how it drives better collaboration, accountability, and organizational success.

Business IT Alignment, Convergence, IT Strategy

Editorial

September 15, 2025
Kip Fanta

IT Leaders as Business Leaders: Why Talking Tech First Loses the Room

IT leaders as business leaders know that influence comes from connecting technology to business goals. Learn why talking tech first makes you lose the room—and how to shift your approach.

Business Growth, Business IT Alignment, IT Leadership, IT Management, Strategic Advisor

Editorial

September 9, 2025
Kip Fanta

Measure Value from Day One

Organizations invest heavily in projects and technology but often fail to measure the value they create. Value isn’t just financial ROI—it spans quantitative, qualitative, tangible, and intangible outcomes. This blog explains why defining, tracking, and sharing ownership of value from the start is essential, and how tools like GetInSync help teams focus on the measures that truly matter.

Business Growth, Business IT Alignment, IT Value, Strategic Advisor

Editorial

September 2, 2025
Kip Fanta

From Fixing Problems to Shaping Strategy: The New Role of IT

IT strategy transformation is redefining the role of technology teams. As automation and AI handle routine tasks, IT professionals and MSPs must shift from fixing problems to driving business strategy, innovation, and growth.

Business IT Alignment, IT Strategy, Strategic Advisor

Editorial

August 26, 2025
Kip Fanta

Application Rationalization: Not a Project, a Discipline

Application rationalization is more than a one-time cleanup project — it’s an ongoing discipline. As organizations grow, applications pile up, creating overlap, wasted costs, and security risks. By regularly reviewing, consolidating, and retiring tools, leaders can reduce complexity, lower expenses, and improve productivity. Supported by the right tools, application rationalization helps you keep control of your portfolio and align technology decisions with business strategy.

Application Portfolio Management, Application Rationalization, Business Growth, Business IT Alignment, IT Strategy

Editorial

August 18, 2025
Kip Fanta

From Intake to Impact: Fixing the Front End of Your Tech Portfolio

Most tech portfolios don’t fail because of bad execution. They fail because of a broken intake process. When ideas, requests, and proposals enter without structure or strategy, the result is wasted spend, overloaded teams, and lost business trust. Fixing your tech intake process—the front door to your IT ecosystem—creates smarter investments, faster decisions, and portfolios that actually deliver impact.

Business IT Alignment, Intake Process, IT Strategy, Tech Portfolio

Editorial

August 11, 2025
Kip Fanta

The Real Role of IT in Business Transformation

IT is no longer just a support function in business—it’s a core driver of transformation. When organizations treat IT as a strategic partner from the beginning, they reshape their ability to create value, adapt to change, and scale innovation. Transformation requires IT to do more than just deliver solutions; it demands that IT plays an active role in shaping strategy, simplifying complexity, and ensuring alignment across the business. It's time for IT to lead, not follow.

Business Growth, Business IT Alignment, Business Transformation

Editorial

August 5, 2025
Kip Fanta

Tech Debt isn’t just a Dev Problem; it’s a Leadership Problem

Tech debt leadership is about more than code reviews and refactoring. It’s about the decisions that create complexity—tool sprawl, manual workarounds, and neglected systems. These aren’t engineering failures. They’re leadership ones. If you're shaping roadmaps and budgets, tech debt is already your problem. Start treating it that way.

Application Portfolio Management, Business IT Alignment, Decision-making, Shadow IT

Editorial

July 28, 2025
Kip Fanta

Why Every Tech Strategy Should Start with a Capability Conversation

Too many strategies start with tools instead of purpose. Capability-led planning shifts the conversation from what tech to buy to what the business actually needs to do. When you map outcomes to capabilities first, you reduce waste, align teams, and invest where it counts.

Business IT Alignment, Convergence, IT Management, IT Strategy, Strategic Advisor, vCIO

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