Book description
Most companies waste billions of dollars on technology. Don't be one of them.
If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic potential--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are eight inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you:
- Clarify corporate strategy with your IT department
- Fund only IT projects that support your strategy
- Transform IT investments into profits
- Build one technology platform for your entire organization
- Adopt new technologies only when their best
practices are established
- Use analytics to make smart decisions at all levels
of your company
- Integrate social media into your business
If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic potential--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are eight inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you:
- Clarify corporate strategy with your IT department
- Fund only IT projects that support your strategy
- Transform IT investments into profits
- Build one technology platform for your entire organization
- Adopt new technologies only when their best
practices are established
- Use analytics to make smart decisions at all levels
of your company
- Integrate social media into your business
Table of contents
- Cover
- The Harvard Business Review
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Six IT Decisions Your IT People Shouldn’t Make
- Getting IT Right
- IT Doesn’t Matter
- Bold Retreat: A New Strategy for Old Technologies
- Information Technology and the Board of Directors
- Competing on Analytics
- Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference
- Empowered
Product information
- Title: Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2011
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422162477
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