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Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies: How to Achieve a Competitive Advantage
by: Bernard H. Boar

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.0285
EAN: 9780471076377
ISBN: 0471076376
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: December 03, 1994
Publisher: Wiley
Sales Rank: 480045
Studio: Wiley

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Information Technology

Cutting-edge techniques for equipping your IT organization to meet the challenges of today's business world

Today's leaner, meaner, total quality business organizations look to information technology to provide them with a sustainable competitive advantage. That's why the IT managers who are in greatest demand are those who are well versed in modern strategic planning techniques and capable of developing a dynamic IT organization ever alert to their companies' current and future business needs. Written by an author at the cutting edge of today's IT business strategy revolution, this book offers you a clear, easy-to-implement action plan for reengineering your business's IT organization with an eye to building, sustaining, and expanding a competitive advantage. You will find:
* Charts and templates that an IT staff can customize and use today
* Techniques for overcoming most architecture problems, including a diagramming technique for drawing exceptionally clear blueprints
* An in-depth discussion of business IT alignment
* How to design an internal IT business economy
* Tips on how to get the biggest bang for the buck while optimizing customer service
* Proven techniques that radically improve application development through object-oriented technologies, data servers, and prototyping

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- Bridging business strategy and IT planning: a clear guide
It was about the time this book was written in 1994 that I was facing a difficult time trying to articulate the relationship between business strategy and use of information technology, and the complex set of issues of alignment between the two. I was involved in the complex restructuring of a central bank in an African country and my need to explain these issues to central bankers made my job even more complex.

This book opened my eyes. Even as business thinking and technology have evolved tremendously since this book was published, I still find this text one of the clearest and most concise guides on this subject. The author's approach is highly structured and supported by excellent graphics and charts and he eschews the use of jargon in favor of more straightforwad language.

The strength of the book is its achievement of the difficult balance between business and technolgy issues. Even the ... Read More

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- comprehensive ...the only missing part is ROI and IT values
This is an excellent book for IT leadership who often finds itslef on a different road and cannot justify the value of IT. Unless IT is perfectly aligned with the company strategy this value is never there. This book shows you how to do it...how to align yourself. What is missing are some lessons in showing or developing ROI in IT projects.

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