What comes first: the business strategy or the IT strategy? Well that's a 'no-brainer,' clearly business drives IT right? Actually my colleague Andy Kyte is finding some leading CIOs, recognizing the huge business cost impacts from the lack of IT strategic planning, are nowadays placing IT Strategy before Business Strategy. He points out this is counter-intuitive, and represents a revolution in the relationship between IT and the rest of the business. In his session "Why Leaders Place IT Strategy Before Business Strategy," Gartner Fellow Andy Kyte will show why these leaders are gaining benefits from this approach, and describe how they set about the task.

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