World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs - Hardcover

High, Peter A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470450185 ISBN 13: 9780470450185

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2010

Synopsis

Bigger and bigger percentages of corporate budgets are being spent on IT investments. In this book, the author offers lessons from world class IT departments that have aligned IT with business strategy to improve the bottom line. Based on years of research and filled with illustrative examples from Fortune 500 companies, the book outlines five principles that successful IT and business executives need to monitor in order to ensure that the IT department contributes all it can to the company. This is an ideal resource for CEOs and CIOs.

About this title

Review:

Chosen as third among "The Best IT Business Books of 2009."
--CIO Insight

"What's unique about this book is that it's not only a must-read for the CIO (and everyone else in an IT department); it's for anyone associated with the technology industry. If you are a manufacturer, seller, or service provider of technology, you will gain insight into what makes an IT department world class."
--CIO Digest

"The new book World Class IT (Jossey-Bass, 2009), by consultant Peter A. High, provides solid, timeless advice for CIOs trying to manage IT for business success."
-- Mitch Betts, ComputerWorld Book Review

From the Back Cover:

World Class IT

Technology is all around us. It is so pervasive in our daily lives that we may not even recognize when we interact with it. Despite this fact, many companies have yet to leverage information technology as a strategic weapon.

What then is an information technology executive to do in order to raise the prominence of his or her department? In World Class IT, recognized expert in IT strategy Peter High reveals the essential principles IT executives must follow and the order in which they should follow them whether they are at the helm of a high–performing department or one in need of great improvement.

• Principle 1: Recruit, train, and retain World Class IT people
• Principle 2: Build and maintain a robust IT infrastructure
• Principle 3: Manage projects and portfolios effectively
• Principle 4: Ensure partnerships within the IT department and with the business
• Principle 5: Develop a collaborative relationship with external partners

The principles and associated subprinciples and metrics introduced in World Class IT have been used by IT and business executives alike at many Global 1000 companies to monitor and improve IT′s performance. Those principles pertain as much to the leaders of IT as they do to those striving to emulate them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470450185
• ISBN 13: 9780470450185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192