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Take Charge!The Leadership Agenda

Why not upset the apple cart.

If you don’t, the apples will rot anyway.

—Frank A. Clark1

IN CHAPTER 1 we described the benefits of a foundation for execution. Now we ask—would you like your business to have:

  • Higher profitability?
  • Faster time to market?
  • More value from your IT investments?
  • Twenty-five percent lower IT costs?
  • Better access to shared customer data?
  • Lower risk of mission-critical systems failures?
  • Eighty percent higher senior management satisfaction with technology?

To achieve these objectives via a foundation for execution there is one more question to answer: what is the leadership agenda ...

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