Best practices in information technology : how corporations get the most value from exploiting their digital investments

Title:

Author:

Cortada, James W.

ISBN:

9780137564460

Personal Author:

Cortada, James W.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

Why best practices: the shortcut to productivity and results -- The value of aligning I/T with business strategies -- Receiving value from computers and the high priests of technology -- Best practices applications: focusing on the essentials -- Managing legacy systems and choosing the "right" architectures -- Aligning business and information processing cultures in a techno-centric age -- Making day-to-day operations work effectively, always -- Staying in top management shape, winning the culture wars -- A strategy for managing the hunt for value: the focus on best practices -- Beyond best practices -- Appn. A. How to take a snapshot of your I/T effectiveness -- Appn. B. Applying quality management practices to I/T: the short course -- Appn. C. Organizations that can help you identify best practices -- Appn. D. Beyond computing's parternship award winners.

Subject Term:

Information technology -- Management.

Management information systems.

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Summary

This book offers a practical, long-term strategy for using Best Practices to achieve real, quantifiable value from IT investments. This action-oriented book shows how to find and apply IT solutions that work. It presents Best Practices as a long-term strategy, not a one-time fix. Explore new ways to make sure IT delivers economic value to the corporation, including advanced tools such as balanced scorecard measurements. Learn what IT best practices have in common, and where to look for them. Take a "snapshot" of your current effectiveness, and discover smarter ways to choose among competing IT initiatives. Learn how to build IT architectures that integrate and enhance legacy systems. Walk through every major activity that IT organizations perform, discovering where Best Practices offer the most powerful payoff in maximize cost-effectiveness and customer value. For all CIOs, IT senior managers, consultants, architects, project managers, analysts and developers.