Managing IT As a Business A Survival Guide for CEOs

Name: Managing IT As a Business A Survival Guide for CEOs
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ISBN: 9780471471042

ISBN-10: 0471471046

ISBN-13: 9780471471042

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mark D. Lutchen

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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.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.45" wide x 9.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

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.



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Get the CIO on the Executive Team



Link IT Strategy to Corporate Strategy



IT Management Is about Relationship Management



Align the IT Organization Structure with Profitability Drivers



Understand the Real IT Spend



Focus on Outcomes, Not Process



Leveraging Investment Cycles and the Power of Standardization



Talk about Information Technology and Use IT Appropriately so Others Know It Is Important



Information Technology Improvement Never Ends


Index