Book description
Timely guidance for transforming IT into a strategic business partner
Today's leaders are expected to reduce costs, increase productivity, drive innovation and help the business identify and pursue new business opportunities. Successful IT leaders will be the ones that become strategic business partners and decision influencers in their organizations. Unleashing the Power of IT describes in actionable detail, the new mindset, core skill set, and interpersonal tool set that are necessary for IT leaders to thrive in today's increasingly complex challenging business environment.
Provides tangible, hard-hitting, real-world strategies, techniques and approaches that will immediately transform your IT workforce and culture
Includes Top Ten lists of tips and techniques, proven frameworks and practical guidance to help you launch and sustain your IT culture change and professional development initiatives
Addresses how to build a client-focused IT culture; move your organization from order takers to trusted business partners, market IT's value, lead change with confidence, manage projects and vendor relationships
A special feature of this book includes a chapter profiling several world-class organizations that have implemented the principles in this book. Learn about the culture change challenges they overcame and benefit from their best practices and successes.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Creating Your Twenty-First Century Workforce and Culture
- Chapter 2: Transforming Your IT Team
- Chapter 3: Building a Client-Focused IT Culture
- Chapter 4: Evolving into the Role of Consultant
- Chapter 5: Negotiating: Getting What You Want without Damaging the Relationship
- Chapter 6: Managing Projects: The Science and the Art
- Chapter 7: Changing Your Requirements-Gathering Mindset
- Chapter 8: Sharpening Your Political Savvy
- Chapter 9: Marketing IT's Value
- Chapter 10: Managing the Vendor Relationship
- Chapter 11: Driving Change with Intent
- Chapter 12: Putting the Book into Action: Stories from the Trenches
- A Call to Action: Create Your Road Map for IT Transformation
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- About O&A
- Index
Product information
- Title: Unleashing the Power of IT: Bringing People, Business, and Technology Together
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2011
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470920428
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