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Insights in this book come from a series of research projects conducted between 2000 and 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR) on how top-performing firms generate superior business value from IT. Weill and Ross, affiliated with the Center, distill research on 1,800 companies in 60 countries into an actionable framework for gaining value from IT. The framework addresses IT funding and govnernance and offers suggestions for revamping the operating model for a digital economy, creating a reusable digital platform, and allocating decision rights and accountabilities. Ideas are illustrated with examples from top-performing companies such as UPS and 7-Eleven. The information can be applied to small or large organizations, for-profits or non-profits, and government organizations. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, 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 their competitors.In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. You'll discover how to:-Define your firm's operating model-how IT can help you do business-Revamp your IT funding model to support your operating model-Build a digitized platform of business processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model-Determine IT decision rights-Extract more business value from your IT assetsPacked with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's performance to new heights.
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