CIO’s have been taught to align IT with business strategies. But this implies that the two are somehow disconnected.  I’m not so sure.

Last year CIO.com published an article suggesting IT and business alignment might a thing of the past. This month another really compelling article publish in InformationWeek draws a similar conclusion. In Forget Alignment: How to Co-Create a Business Strategy Forrester Research analyst Nigel Fenwick writes how fully integrated IT groups don’t try to create an IT strategy that aligns with business, instead they co-create a business strategy with a technology component. That means business leaders and IT leaders working together. Not so easy? Well, that seems to be the consensus among the majority of respondents in Forrester Research‘s Global Technology Strategy online survey in Q4 2011, of which only 4% say IT is fully integrated into their business.

So how do we get IT leaders and business leaders working together to co-create strategies? Forrester offers a strategic planning framework to help you get there.  Read the article.