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Overview
Praise for Breakthrough IT: Supercharging Organizational Value Through Technology
"As business changes, so, too, does the role of the CIO and the overall IT organization. In Breakthrough IT, Patrick Gray provides a necessary roadmap for shifting IT from an operational entity that simply manages technology, to a powerhouse that combines strategy and technology to deliver measurable business results and long-term value."
—Mark D. Lutchen, Former global CIO, PricewaterhouseCoopers and author of the bestselling book Managing IT as a Business
"Breakthrough IT drives home how to gain tangible business value from IT resources. By providing remarkably valuable insights and guidance for serious executives, Patrick Gray has created a gem of a book containing a treasury rich with compelling ideas and examples."
—Andrew Boynton, Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and former professor of strategy and program director of the Executive MBA Program at IMD, Europe's leading business school
Today's business climate is one of global unprecedented change, be it in response to the new global playing field, the advent of disruptive technologies, or a changing labor market. How can you ensure your IT spending is actually delivering value to your company?
Pragmatic and insightful, Breakthrough IT is the first book to show corporations how to move onto the next step in the evolution of their corporate IT function and look beyond the technologies that have been the focus of the IT industry.
Too often, technology is an ongoing cost to be constrained, rather than a strategythat can further a company's long and short range objectives. Breakthrough IT shows your company how it can generate unprecedented competitive advantage by revolutionizing IT to create a value engine for your corporation.
Synopsis
We live in one of the most interesting times in the history of the corporate Information Technology organization. The function of IT in today's organizations is no longer limited to providing a commodity service at the lowest possible cost and the CIO can no longer be seen simply as a "technologist." IT in the twenty-first century is all about helping your company execute on its strategic objectives, with the CIO playing a more proactive role in focusing IT's efforts on deliver-ing strategy.
A revolutionary book providing a step-by-step methodology for creating a value-based IT organization, Breakthrough IT details the multidisciplined approach companies must take to considering, selecting, and delivering large IT projects that generate maximum return on investment.
Filled with case studies, analysis, and commentary illustrating both successful and failed projects, as well as several enlightening interviews with leading C-suite executives in various stages of implementing Breakthrough IT in their own companies, readers will learn how IT is being used in various organizations and will gain insight from the front line across multiple industries, company sizes, and continents.
Combining several disciplines with the goal of making IT serve business objectives rather than provide and service tools, Breakthrough IT:
- Reveals how IT should deliver and execute business strategy, and not just provide a portfolio of commodity services
- Provides a methodology for transitioning IT from the old way of doing business into a Breakthrough IT organization
- Explores how the CIO can be the primary person responsible for instituting process change, rather than a mere keeper of technology
- Provides guidelines for the CEO and CIO to move their relationship from one of customer and vendor, to one of partners in fueling business growth
- Spells out the critical roles of the CEO and CIO in driving change
- Shows CIOs how to develop process expertise within their organization
With useful action points and an executive sum-mary at the end of each chapter, Breakthrough IT contains concrete steps you can begin taking in your organization to transform its IT function into a true Breakthrough IT shop. Guide your IT organization from an engineering, "utility-based," internal provider to a Breakthrough IT organization, capable of delivering predictable and measurable returns on IT investment. Equip your company to break through with Breakthrough IT.