IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

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Harvard Business Press, May 6, 2004 - Business & Economics - 320 pages
Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and accountability. Based on a study of 250 enterprises worldwide, IT Governance shows how to design and implement a system of decision rights that will transform IT from an expense to a profitable investment.
 

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Making IT a Strategic Asset
IT Governance Archetypes for Allocating Decision Rights
Mechanisms for Implementing IT Governance
What IT Governance Works Best
Linking Strategy IT Governance and Performance
Government and NotforProfit Organizations
Leadership Principles for IT Governance
Research Sites
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Peter Weill is the Director of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and a Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Jeanne W. Ross is Principal Research Scientist at CISR.

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