Managing IT as a Business: A Survival Guide for CEOs

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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 6, 2011 - Business & Economics - 256 pages
With Managing IT as a Business you'll get practical advice on how to unleash the full potential of this critical function so that companies can derive maximum benefit. It offers a proven plan for bridging the gap between CEOs and CIOs that has, until now, impeded their ability to work together in order to craft objectives, establish budget guidelines, and develop metrics for measuring IT value and success. In short, with this book as a guide, business leaders will learn how to manage IT as they would any other functional business unit.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Get the CIO on the Executive Team
15
2 Link IT Strategy to Corporate Strategy
37
3 IT Management Is about Relationship Management
59
4 Align the IT Organization Structure with Profitability Drivers
83
5 Understand the Real IT Spend
119
6 Focus on Outcomes Not Process
151
7 Leveraging Investment Cycles and the Power of Standardization
179
8 Talk about Information Technology and Use IT Appropriately so Others Know It Is Important
209
9 Information Technology Improvement Never Ends
225
Index
237
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About the author (2011)

MARK D. LUTCHEN is the former Global CIO of PricewaterhouseCoopers. In that role he was responsible for reengineering, reconstructing, and integrating the company s worldwide IT systems during that organization s massive late 90s merger. With nearly three decades of operating experience, he has consulted on IT management with numerous Fortune 500 companies and executives. He currently leads PwC s Business Risk Management Initiative, which provides senior executives with practical strategies to manage IT risks and optimize IT investment and resources.

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