Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780997612745
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2016
Publisher: Bookbaby


Description:


For many CIOs, the value they deliver is elusive. It’s not that they do not create positive business outcomes, it’s that they have a hard time demonstrating value for the money spent. As a result, many IT leaders find themselves trapped in a vicious cycle of defending their budgets, cutting resources when times are tight, and struggling to keep pace with an insatiable business appetite for innovation.

Meanwhile, business leaders increasingly rely on the cloud and other third parties for their technology needs, finding clear tradeoffs between cost, features, risk, and speed of delivery at their fingertips. CIOs must not only compete with these alternatives, they must embrace the new reality of a multi-sourced, service-oriented world.

Many IT leaders are taking a more proactive approach to optimizing value. By using shared facts about cost, consumption, quality, risk and performance, hundreds of CIOs have empowered value conversations centered on cost-for-performance, business-aligned portfolios, investments in innovation and enterprise agility. The tradeoffs they’ve illuminated changed the tone of their meetings and instilled a business mindset in IT decisions.

By reading this book, you’ll discover and learn the following:

- A practical, applied framework — called Technology Business Management — for creating and using shared facts to make better decisions about people, technologies, services and investments

- A standard taxonomy of resources, technologies and services for CIOs to translate between IT, financial, and business perspectives

- Creating transparency to empower decision makers, demon