Book description
Managing IT Performance to Create Business Value provides examples, case histories, and current research for critical business issues such as performance measurement and management, continuous process improvement, knowledge management, risk management, benchmarking, metrics selection, and people management. It gives IT executives strategies for improving IT performance and delivering value, plus it guides them in selecting the right metrics for their IT organizations. Additionally, it offers knowledge management strategies to mature an organization, shows how to manage risks to exploit opportunities and prepare for threats, and explains how to baseline an IT organization’s performance and measure its improvement.
Consisting of 10 chapters plus appendices, the book begins with an overview of performance-based strategic planning, after which it discusses the development of a quality improvement (QI) plan, establishing benchmarks, and measuring performance improvements. It covers how to design IT-specific measures and financial metrics as well as the establishment of a software measurement program. From there, it moves on to designing people improvement systems and discusses such topics as leadership, motivation, recruitment, and employee appraisal.
The final few chapters show how to use balanced scorecards to manage and measure knowledge-based social enterprising and to identify, analyze, and avoid risks. In addition to covering new methods and metrics for measuring and improving IT processes, the author looks at strategies for measuring product development and implementing continuous innovation. The final chapter considers customer value systems and explains how to use force field analysis to listen to customers with the goal of improving customer satisfaction and operational excellence.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- AUTHOR
- Chapter 1: Designing Performance-Based Strategic Planning Systems
- Chapter 2: Designing Performance Management and Measurement Systems
- Chapter 3: Designing Metrics
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Chapter 4: Establishing a Software Measurement Program
- Resources, Products, Processes
- Direct and Indirect Software Measurement
- Views of Core Measures
- Use a Software Process Improvement Model
- Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model
- Identify a Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) Structure
- Develop a Software Measurement Plan
- Example Measurement Plan Standard
- In Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Designing People Improvement Systems
- Chapter 6: Knowledge and Social Enterprising Performance Measurement and Management
- Chapter 7: Designing Performance-Based Risk Management Systems
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Chapter 8: Designing Process Control and Improvement Systems
- IT Utility
- Getting to Process Improvements
- Enhancing IT Processes
- New Methods
- Process Quality
- Process Performance Metrics
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Shared First
- Step 1: Inventory, Assess, and Benchmark Internal Functions and Services
- Step 2: Identify Potential Shared Services Providers
- Step 3: Compare Internal Services versus Shared Services Providers
- Step 4: Make the Investment Decision
- Step 5: Determine Funding Approach
- Step 6: Establish Service-Level Agreements
- Step 7: Postdeployment Operations and Management
- Configuration Management
- In Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9: Designing and Measuring the IT Product Strategy
- Chapter 10: Designing Customer Value Systems
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
- APPENDIX III
- APPENDIX IV
- APPENDIX V
- APPENDIX VI
- APPENDIX VII
- APPENDIX VIII
- APPENDIX IX
- APPENDIX X
- APPENDIX XI
- APPENDIX XII
- APPENDIX XIII
- APPENDIX XIV
- APPENDIX XV
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Managing IT Performance to Create Business Value
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2016
- Publisher(s): Auerbach Publications
- ISBN: 9781315351162
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