Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value (Gartner) - Hardcover

Hunter, Richard; Westerman, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1422147614 ISBN 13: 9781422147610

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 2009

Synopsis

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2009-9-1 Pages: 218 Publisher: Perseus If youre a general manager or CFO. do you feel yourespending too much on IT or wishing you could get better returnsfrom your IT investments If so. its time to examine whats behindthis IT-as-cost mind-set. In The Real Business of IT. Richard Hunter and George Westermanreveal that the cost mind-set stems from IT leaders inability tocommunicate about the business value they create-so CIOs get stuckdiscussing budgets rather than their contributions . to theorganization The authors explain how IT leaders can combat this mind-set byfirst using information technology to generate three forms of valueimportant to leaders throughout the organization: -Value for money when your IT department operates efficiently andeffectively -An investment in business performance evidenced when IT helpsdivisions. units. and ...

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About the Author:

Richard Hunter is Group Vice President and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research, a division of Gartner, Inc., the world's largest technology research firm. George Westerman is a research scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management's Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR), which Ziff Davis named the world's "most influential IT academic research center." They are coauthors of the award-winning book IT Risk: Turning Business Threats Into Competitive Advantage.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1422147614
• ISBN 13: 9781422147610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240