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IT governance : how top performers manage IT decision rights for superior results / Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Harvard Business School Press, (c)2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781422163344
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD30 .I846 2004
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Five key it decisions: making it a strategic asset -- It governance archetypes for allocating decision rights -- Mechanisms for implementing it governance -- What it governance works best -- Linking strategy, it governance and performance -- Government and not for profit organizations -- Leadership principles for it governance.
Subject: Seventy percent of all IT projects fail-and scores of books have attempted to help firms measure and manage IT systems and processes better in order to turn this figure aroundIn this book, IT experts Peter D. Weill and Jeanne W. Ross argue that the real reason IT fails to deliver value is that companies have no formal system in place for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. Their research shows that firms with explicit IT governance systems have twice the profit of firms with poor governance, given the same strategic objectives. Just as corporate governance systems aim to ensure quality decisions about corporate assets, the authors show, companies need IT governance systems to ensure that IT investments are made wisely and effectively.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

It governance simultaneously empowers and controls -- Five key it decisions: making it a strategic asset -- It governance archetypes for allocating decision rights -- Mechanisms for implementing it governance -- What it governance works best -- Linking strategy, it governance and performance -- Government and not for profit organizations -- Leadership principles for it governance.

Seventy percent of all IT projects fail-and scores of books have attempted to help firms measure and manage IT systems and processes better in order to turn this figure aroundIn this book, IT experts Peter D. Weill and Jeanne W. Ross argue that the real reason IT fails to deliver value is that companies have no formal system in place for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. Their research shows that firms with explicit IT governance systems have twice the profit of firms with poor governance, given the same strategic objectives. Just as corporate governance systems aim to ensure quality decisions about corporate assets, the authors show, companies need IT governance systems to ensure that IT investments are made wisely and effectively.

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