From Business Strategy to IT Action Right Decisions for a Better Bottom Line [Hardcover]

From Business Strategy to IT Action gives companies of all sizes the tools to effectively link IT to business strategy and produce effective, actionable strategies for bottom-line results. The authors present CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers with a powerful and accessible resource packed with such useful material as:
* The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain, which integrates the management practices relating to planning, prioritization, alignment, and assessing a company's entire IT budget
* Methods for using IT Impact Management to establish IT culture and performance models for the business/IT connection
* The IT Improvement Zone, which quickly identifies where a company can focus its energies for maximum results
* And much morePreface.

Acknowledgments.

CHAPTER 1: Define the Goals.

Today’s Reality.

The Entire IT Spend: Reducing Cost and Improving Bottom-Line Impact.

The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain.

Disconnects.

Critical Success Factors.

Completing the Picture: The New Information Economics Practices.

Summary of the Book.

Define the Goals: Management Agenda.

CHAPTER 2: Ask the Right Questions.

The Right Questions Focus on Affordability and Impact.

Affordability Questions: The Starting Point for the Right Actions.

Impact Questions: The Roadmap for the Right Actions.

Examples: Answering the Questions.

The Contexts for Management Questions Are Planning and Budgeting Processes.

Why Ask Affordability and Impact Questions?

Taking Action.

Chapter Summary.

Ask the Right Questions: Management Agenda.

CHAPTER 3: Connect to thlS¦