|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Product Description
Book Description
Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed.
These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies with IT-savvy managers are 20 percent more profitable than their competitors.
In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. You'll discover how to:
-Define your firm's operating model-how IT can help you do business
-Revamp your IT funding model to support your operating model
-Build a digitized platform of business processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model
-Determine IT decision rights
-Extract more business value from your IT assets
Packed with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's performance to new heights.
These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies with IT-savvy managers are 20 percent more profitable than their competitors.
In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. You'll discover how to:
-Define your firm's operating model-how IT can help you do business
-Revamp your IT funding model to support your operating model
-Build a digitized platform of business processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model
-Determine IT decision rights
-Extract more business value from your IT assets
Packed with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's performance to new heights.
About the Author
Peter Weill is chairman of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at MIT. Ziff-Davis and eweek.com named him twenty-fourth of the 100 most influential people in IT. Jeanne W. Ross is director of MIT CISR and founding senior editor and former editor-in-chief of MISQ Executive, a journal for managers translating research findings into action.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The IT journey from liability to corporate asset,
By
This review is from: IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain (Hardcover)
IT Savvy achieves 2 goals: it tells us that the digital platform for business processes has entered the maturity stage and then informs us on the new trends in presenting the benefits of IT to upper management.The first chapter sets the pace in aiming to change everyone's perception of IT from liability to asset. On that journey, the authors introduce us to a new operational model that is coupled to modern thinking on funding IT undertakings. The chapter on governance is short and provides a better grasp than entire books on the topic. What would have been a nice addition to this great book is a new IT accounting paradigm, and accompanying jargon, to really propel IT investments from the liability to asset column. IT assets' benefits are still lying off the balance sheet and the impacts of information and business agility are simply not 'accounted for' at their fair market value in the corporate world!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Become a smarter Technologist,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain (Hardcover)
In this practical book from Harvard Business Press, Peter Weill & Jeanne W. Ross, authors of "IT Governance" offers some valuable guidance on the subject of Information Technology in the Enterprise. CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, Senior Management IT Professionals and serious Technologists can benefit from the advice offered by the two researcher/authors in this book. This is the first piece of literature that I have come across which really outlines the need to have a clearly defined "operating model". This is extremely important for organizations that are serious about the role of IT in the business. IT Governance is the next key piece of the equation, the business must be a partner in all IT initiatives. The ultimate position for the CIO is to become a "trusted advisor". The opening chapter sets the message for the entire book, "Transforming IT from a Strategic Liability to Strategic Asset". Every serious IT professional should consider reading this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Putting the "Operating Model" of the enterprise in perspective,
By
This review is from: IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain (Hardcover)
This book explains really well the concept of the "Operating Model" in the Enterprise. This book is the follow-on of the other excellent book "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy".The subject of "IT" is explained really well for anyone from the CIO to the programmer. Anyone interested to do things differently can benefit by reading this book. The different aspect of "IT" covered in each chapter really put in perspective what is important if you want to bring your organization at the next level of maturity.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > MIS
- Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Management
- Books > Computers & Internet > Business & Culture > Manager's Guides to Computing
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Business & Finance > Management
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Computer Science & Information Systems > Computer Science
- Books > Professional & Technical > Business Management > Management & Leadership > Information Management
- Books > Professional & Technical > Business Management > Management & Leadership > Management
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
