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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,...
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Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives is a fundamental breakthrough in the business and technology perspectives of service oriented architecture (SOA). A valuable resource to help you understand and realize the benefits of SOA in today's companies, this guide will show you how to plan, implement, and achieve SOA value. Use a prescriptive approach to help you clearly understand SOA and to determine its applications for your...
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Complete with diagrams, graphs, and real-life examples, How to Manage Complex Programs explains the ins and outs of program management and provides concrete and effective techniques for structuring deliverables, workflow, and staffing. Successful program management begins with a good command of project management processes, but these are never sufficient. Once a program exceeds a certain scale, project processes become unwieldy. To see a program successfully...
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Discover how to survive and thrive in an increasingly digital world
Digital strategy should consist of more than just updating your business' desktop computers and buying the newest smartphones for your employees. It requires the reimagining of existing business processes and the implementation of the latest technologies into current business activity to enable new capabilities for your firm.
In Decisively Digital:
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Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flat lining, 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...
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"You can thrive and excel when you're working remotely, if you adopt the mindset, habits and tech tools of professionals who are even more productive outside the office: Learn to think like a "business of one," and that entrepreneurial mindset will transform your experience of remote work." -- inside front jacket flap.
"Two experienced productivity authors team up to reveal how proven strategies and a little tech savvy can help you level up your...
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"Leading Digital makes the provocative argument that the next imminent phase of digital technology adoption - driven by the convergence of mobility, analytics, social media, cloud computing, and embedded devices - will make everything that's happened so far look like a prelude. The authors, a trio of highly regarded thought leaders on corporate digital transformation, say changes in the digital realm so far have focused on high tech and media companies...
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Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with sound modernization strategies.
How to survive a legacy apocalypse
“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to result in a less efficient solution. This book offers a far more forgiving...
How to survive a legacy apocalypse
“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to result in a less efficient solution. This book offers a far more forgiving...
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Cloud computing has been positioned as today's ideal IT platform. However, this has been said before of other IT architectures. How is cloud different?
This book looks at what cloud promises now, and how cloud is likely to evolve as the future unfolds. Readers will be better able to ensure that decisions made now will hold them in good stead for the future and will gain a better understanding of how cloud can deliver the best outcome for their organisations....
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Successfully navigate the changing face of the CIO role
Strategic Information Technology offers CIOs a handbook for engaging with the senior management conversations surrounding strategy. The CIO role is currently undergoing a massive transition from technology-focused expert to a more strategic mindset, and this book provides proven methods for taking your seat at the table. Lessons from high-performing CIOs and a wealth of
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"This book offers insightful and practical advice and strategies to help IT leaders maximize the impact of IT on their business. While the technologies constantly change at a dramatic pace, the practices described in this book are timeless and can help transform IT department from a mere order taker to a high performance organization that delivers extraordinary business outcomes, despite this era of turbulent economic challenges.The author shares...
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"Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from billions of users. For companies that design and manufacture physical products, that type of fluid, data-rich information used to be a pipe dream. Now, with the rise of cheap and powerful sensors, computing power, and artificial intelligence, things are changing-fast. In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat...
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Learn how to effectively run large IT systems such that they work well and create happy customers. A complement to ITIL, the authors cover everything from technology to process to organization design. Many IT organizations suffer from poor system and service quality with costly consequences. Every day it seems there's a new media report of a system failure damaging a company's bottom line or reputation. Don't let your business be next. Achieving IT...
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"Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means-and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand...
15) Future state 2025: how top technology executives disrupt and drive success in the digital economy
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"The rise of the digital economy has elevated the role of the CIO and vastly expanded the responsibilities of the IT team function. Continuous innovation is the new normal ; CIOs must deliver it, or perish. Choosing and implementing the right technology is absolutely essential for success in hyper-competitive markets. This book is written to help CIOs, CTOs and CFOs identify the best technology investments and move forward with rapid implementations...
16) Digital transformation payday: navigate the hype, lower the risks, increase return on investments
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"Customers want to work with organizations via their phone or computer, and organizations are spending huge amounts on the "Digital Transformation" required to deliver this seamless experience. But too often these digital projects don't pay off. This is the first researched-based book to guide leaders through successful digital transformation"--
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Every organization has a plan for updating products, technologies, and business processes. But that's not enough anymore. With disruptive startups outperforming industry stalwarts, executives everywhere are pushing greater growth and innovation. Staying competitive demands a complete digital transformation. For professionals charged with leading technology-driven change, the pressure is intense--and the path forward unclear. Author Isaac Sacolick...
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Regardless of industry, most major companies are becoming technology companies. The successful management of information has become so critical to a company's goals, that in many ways, now is the age of the CIO. Yet IT executives are besieged by a host of contradictions: bad technology can bring a company to its knees, but corporate boards rarely employ CIOs; CIOs must keep costs down at the very same time that they drive innovation. CIOs are focused...
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"An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliability. Many books on modern IT leadership focus solely on supporting innovation and disruption. In practice these must be balanced with the need to support waste reduction in existing processes and capabilities while keeping the foundation operational, secure, compliant with regulations, and cost effective....
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Designed for graduate, advanced undergraduate, and practitioner project management courses with an information technology focus, Methods of IT Project Management is built around the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The text provides students with all of the concepts, techniques, and methods found in the leading project management reference books, while also conveying practical knowledge that can immediately be applied in real-world
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