IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT for Superior Results

click here for more details, find new or used items	Peter Weill, Jeanne W Ross Our price £20.89 (£21.99) New from £11.22 Used from £10.40 Pages: 288 (Hardcover) ISBN: 1591392535 Pub: Harvard Business School Press Pub date: 2004-05-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 72716

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Excellent book on IT Governance - must read. (1/1 people found this helpful)

This is an excellent book on IT Governance both as a primer and also as source of reference. IT Governance is very topical at present as organisations look to IT to deliver tangible value to directly improve the bottom line and implementing effective Governance is essential for Business-IT alignment. Peter and Jeanne provide an excellent yet simple framework for designing and implementing IT Governance in any large organisation. Latter chapters on governance mechanisms, best practices (ch 5) and linking strategy, IT governance and performance (ch 6) are particularly insightful.

Real Information about Information Technology (3/4 people found this helpful)

Authors Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross provide a thoughtful overview of an important topic - how companies govern information technology and how they can maximize their IT investments. Although computer professionals don’t walk around in white lab coats the way they did in the early 1970s, many corporate cultures tend to isolate IT professionals. Although studies show that companies which govern their IT processes effectively earn higher profits, IT professionals often seem cloistered in their own high-tech priesthood. This book provides a blueprint for harnessing IT and making it the efficient value-generating machine it was always intended to be. You don’t have to wear a pocket-liner, carry a PDA or even know what "http" stands for to benefit from reading this book, which makes a strong case for the importance of solid, goal-aligned IT management. If you sense that your company suffers from a disconnect between its strategy and its IT capabilities, we believe this book could become your firm’s most important piece of low-tech information technology.

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