From Business Strategy to IT Action : Right Decisions for a Better Bottom Line
Robert J. Benson
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York : : Wiley, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (354 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - From Business Strategy to IT Action Right Decisions for a Better Bottom Line; about the authors; about the beta group; about the website; contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Define the Goals; Today's Reality; The Entire IT Spend: Reducing Cost and Improving Bottom-Line Impact; The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain; Disconnects; Critical Success Factors; Completing the Picture: The New Information Economics Practices; Summary of the Book; Define the Goals: Management Agenda; CHAPTER 2 Ask the Right Questions; The Right Questions Focus on Affordability and Impact. - Affordability Questions: The Starting Point for the Right ActionsImpact Questions: The Roadmap for the Right Actions; Examples: Answering the Questions; The Contexts for Management Questions Are Planning and Budgeting Processes; Why Ask Affordability and Impact Questions?; Taking Action; Chapter Summary; Ask the Right Questions: Management Agenda; CHAPTER 3 Connect to the Bottom Line; Bottom-Line Impact Based on Cause and Effect; Cause and Effect Is Based on Management's Intentions; Management's Strategic Intentions; Principles of IT's Bottom-Line Impact; Summary and Additional Implications. - Connect to the Bottom Line: Management AgendaCHAPTER 4 Understand Costs and Resources; Introduction; Origins of Portfolio Management; IT Portfolio Management in Prioritization; Portfolios in NIE Practices; Four IT Portfolio Concepts; Practical Problems in Applying Portfolio Management; Summing Up Portfolios and Portfolio Management in Information Technology; Chapter Summary; Understand Costs and Resources: Management Agenda; CHAPTER 5 Focus on the Right Things; The Goals and Principles for Right Decisions/Right Results; Goal 1: Actionable, Commonly Understood Strategic Intentions. - Goal 2: The Right Bottom-Line Results from ITGoal 3: The Right Management Culture and Management Roles; Goal 4: Portfolios and Portfolio Management; Goal 5: Actions and Results; Summary of Right Decisions/Right Results-Goals and Principles; Goals and Principles Applied to the Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain and NIE Practices; Focus on the Right Things: Management Agenda; CHAPTER 6 Adopt Effective Process to Produce Action; The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain; Establishing the Process Connections; Management Roles; New Information Economics Practices. - Make the Right Decisions: Two NIE Practices. - Summing Up New Information Economics PracticesSumming Up: Adopt Effective Process to Produce Action; Adopt Effective Process to Produce Action: Management Agenda; CHAPTER 7 Tackle the Practical Problems; A Practical Perspective; The Practical Problems Revolve around People; Addressing Practical Problems: IT Impact Management; Practical Problems Getting from Strategy to Bottom-Line Impact; The Role of IT Impact Management; Tackle the Practical Problems: Management Agenda; CHAPTER 8 Make the Right Decisions; The Management Context for "Make the Right Decisions"; Elements of Right Decisions. - From Business Strategy to IT Action gives companies of all sizes the tools to effectively link IT to business strategy and produce effective, actionable strategies for bottom-line results. The authors present CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers with a powerful and accessible resource packed with such useful material as:* The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain, which integrates the management practices relating to planning, prioritization, alignment, and assessing a company's entire IT budget* Methods for using IT Impact Management to establish IT culture and performance models for the b
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| ISBN | 0471491918
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