| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
"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. Leading IT Transformation 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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Unleashing the Power of IT: Bringing People, Business, and Technology Together; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Creating Your Twenty-First Century Workforce and Culture; Core Skills for Success; A Consistent Terminology; Who Will Benefit Most; Leveraging This Book; 2 Transforming Your IT Team; How to Make This Transition: Learn to Think Differently; Five Critical Success Factors that Enable IT Organizational Excellence; Conclusion: High-Performance Reality; 3 Building a Client-Focused IT Culture; What Good Service Looks Like; Service Skills and Mindsets. |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Management.
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Technologie de l'information -- Gestion. |
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Information technology -- Management |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Roberts, Dan (Dan D.), 1963- Unleashing the power of IT. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, ©2011 9780470920428 (DLC) 2010050381 |
| ISBN |
1118044479 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118044476 (electronic bk.) |
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1118044487 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118044483 (electronic bk.) |
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1118044509 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118044506 (electronic bk.) |
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(hardback) |
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(hardback) |
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