Business-driven IT strategy in multi-business and multi-national companies

Business Enabler or Strategic Weapon” (Weiss

et al. 2006) or the expected role of IT organisation

can be either “Grinder, Butler, Team Player or

Entrepreneur” (Mahoney 2007).

1.2 Towards integrated strategies

The need for a method which could set the long

term priorities and development programme

for information management was urgent during

the seventies. Therefore the Ministry of Finance

of Finland and Helsinki School of Economics

founded the development of method to fill this

need. The first prototype published 1979 and the

first handbook in 1983 (Sääksjärvi 1983). This

METO method was a complete study concerning

information management. The utilisation of

METO was project-based effort.