Making IT count
Subtitle: strategy, delivery, infrastructure
By: Leslie P. Willcocks, Peter Petherbridge, Nancy Olson
Contributors: Petherbridge, Peter; Olson, Nancy A., 1960-
Series: Computer weekly professional series; Computer weekly professional series
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780585461700; 9780080510705
Subjects: Planning; Management Science; Industrial Management; Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Organizational Behavior; Information technology
Description: 'Making IT Count: from strategy to implementation' focuses on the practical elements of delivering Information Technology strategy. Studies regularly show that over half of Information Technology strategies are never implemented, or are unsuccessful in delivering the desired results, and that a significant percentage of strategies implemented were never in the original plans. The linkage between strategy development and delivery needs a very clear focus; this is the key topic that the authors address. The book highlights eight major fallacies in managing IT, and eighteen better practices. It.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Making IT Count Strategy, Delivery, Infrastructure; Copyright Page; Contents; About the authors; Butterworth-Heinemann; title: Computer Weekly Professional Series; Chapter 1. Strategy, IT and the strange case of missing business value; Chapter 2. Plotting the course: where we need to be; Chapter 3. Baselining the enterprise; Chapter 4. Putting the pieces together: getting IT from A to B; Chapter 5. Dealing with the IT strategy navigation challenge; Chapter 6. Delivering sourcing strategy for IT and e-business; Chapter 7. Change and delivery 1: mobilizing the organization.