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From Business Strategy to IT Action shows how CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs can improve their IT investments, control IT budgets, and get the biggest bang for their IT buck. From a coordinated business/IT strategic planning process to business/IT performance measurement, the authors present a suite of tools for understanding, managing, and controlling the entire IT budget, aimed at producing the right IT actions for the organization.
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From Business Strategy to IT Action Right Decisions for a Better Bottom Line Praise for From Business Strategy to IT Action The authors provide us a most insightful approach to industry’s toughest problem: on what IT investments should we invest our scarce resources? More importantly, their framework can be applied to any and every discretionary corporate investment. Linking corporate investments to strategic objectives is critical to remaining or becoming a viable and vital business — and this book gives us the roadmap for the journey. Particularly helpful are the provocative sets of questions and helpful tools to address this complex issue. —Francisco A. Figueroa, CFO and Vice President, Sandia National Laboratories This is a dynamite book of practical advice for companies that do not fully understand IT, and should become required reading for both business and IT management. It is a “gem” of disciplines and practices and of business-based ways to manage IT and to get the biggest and most important value from IT investments. —Cecil O. Smith, Senior Vice President and CIO, Duke Energy I’ve worked with Bob for several years. This book, which outlines his practical yet elegant approach for aligning IT action plans with the overarching business strategy, is a must read for anyone who wants to get more impact from their IT dollar! —Brian Gill, Vice President and CIO, Sunlife Canada