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IT governance : how top performers manage IT decision rights for superior results /

By: Weill, Peter
Title By: Ross, Jeanne W
Material type: BookPublisher: Boston : Harvard Business School Press, c2004.Description: xiv, 269 p. ; ill. : 24 cm.ISBN: 1591392535Subject(s): Information technology -- Management | Management | ICTDDC classification: 658.4/038
Summary:
Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and accountability. Based on a study of 250 enterprises worldwide, IT Governance shows how to design and implement a system of decision rights that will transform IT from an expense to a profitable investment.
Seventy percent of all IT projects fail-and scores of books have attempted to help firms measure and manage IT systems and processes better in order to turn this figure aroundIn this book, IT experts Peter D. Weill and Jeanne W. Ross argue that the real reason IT fails to deliver value is that companies have no formal system in place for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. Their research shows that firms with explicit IT governance systems have twice the profit of firms with poor governance, given the same strategic objectives. Just as corporate governance systems aim to ensure quality decisions about corporate assets, the authors show, companies need IT governance systems to ensure that IT investments are made wisely and effectively.
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
Main Collection 		658.4038 WE IT (Browse shelf) Available T0010360
REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
Main Collection 		658.4038 WE IT (Browse shelf) Available T0010361
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

It governance simultaneously empowers and controls -- Five key it decisions: making it a strategic asset -- It governance archetypes for allocating decision rights -- Mechanisms for implementing it governance -- What it governance works best -- Linking strategy, it governance and performance -- Government and not for profit organizations -- Leadership principles for it governance.

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and accountability. Based on a study of 250 enterprises worldwide, IT Governance shows how to design and implement a system of decision rights that will transform IT from an expense to a profitable investment.

Seventy percent of all IT projects fail-and scores of books have attempted to help firms measure and manage IT systems and processes better in order to turn this figure aroundIn this book, IT experts Peter D. Weill and Jeanne W. Ross argue that the real reason IT fails to deliver value is that companies have no formal system in place for guiding and monitoring IT decisions. Their research shows that firms with explicit IT governance systems have twice the profit of firms with poor governance, given the same strategic objectives. Just as corporate governance systems aim to ensure quality decisions about corporate assets, the authors show, companies need IT governance systems to ensure that IT investments are made wisely and effectively.

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