IT Best Practise Series
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Managing Business Value for Information Technology - Practical Strategies for IT and Business Managers
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In today's fast moving competitive business environment, companies increasingly demand that IT investments demonstrate business value through measurable results. David Sward directly addresses this challenge in his book Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology. Intended for IT professionals and consultants as well as business managers, this book covers one of the most important strategies any company can establish to help manage IT in the coming years. Namely, the creation of an IT Business Value Program to execute systematic customer focused approaches to determine the business value for any IT investment an organization may make. Expanding on concepts offered in Martin Curley's Managing IT for Business Value, and linking business value programs with CMF frameworks, Sward explains how business value programs are established; measured; maintained; and governed; providing a blueprint for evaluating IT investments and equipping the reader with the tools required for success. Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology is a rich collection of methodology, processes, metrics, supported with examples from IT @ Intel and other IT organizations. Based on financial concepts and drawing on his background as a Human Factors Engineer, Sward makes the case that the process of establishing and running a business value program can ultimately create a new mindset for IT professionals. While Sward recognizes this will not happen overnight, he believes it serves to instill a belief that an organization can and will create a competitive advantage and increase shareholder value not by just deploying information technology, but by deploying the right information technology by linking IT to corporate objectives and focusing all efforts on the requirements of the end user. | |
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Securing Business Information - Strategies to Protect the Enterprise and Its Network
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Securing Business Information: Strategies to Protect the Enterprise and Its Network provides an approach to security that is derived from numerous successful implementations. The Enterprise Security Plan (ESP) is a six-step process for tailoring enterprise security techniques to the needs of your business. This book will guide you through these steps to secure your computing infrastructure within the constraints of normal business operations, resources, and today's technology: Prepare the enterprise, starting with the staff and their roles Organize a group of security domains and assess the tolerable amount of risk for each Complete a baseline security analysis and derive a set of guiding policies Determine how security policies are being enforced throughout the enterprise Identify gaps and set priorities Plan the projects to implement an appropriately secure enterprise | |
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The Adaptive Enterprise - IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth
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The agile business embraces change rapidly and gracefully. To be ready, the business needs an infrastructure that supports change without disruption or excessive cost. An adaptive infrastructure enables the business to cope with unforeseen circumstances and competitive demands. To build, use, and manage adaptive enterprise solutions, you need an infrastructure planning process that supports new and growing business initiatives. The strategies and processes described in this book will give you clear and practical ways to guide your company through Internet-induced change:
Plan your infrastructure end to end. This book provides a number of successful models to help you plan efficiently and effectively, to show you how to implement an adaptive enterprise infrastructure. Design an adaptive infrastructure. This book explains the fundamental concepts of adaptive infrastructure and explains how to address the major opportunities and challenges you will face. Execute a reuse strategy. This book tells you how to identify key infrastructure patterns within your organization, and how to use those patterns to derive reusable adaptive infrastructure services. Address people, processes, and technology. You can make great technology choices, but without the right people and processes, your technology choices won't bring the success that you expect. Achieve an optimal balance between immediate needs and long-term goals. You must be able to change what you are doing while you are still doing it. This book shows you how to attain the balance needed to transform while you are performing. | |
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Building Operational Excellence - IT People and Process Best Practices
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Running an effective and efficient IT organization goes beyond just having the right technology in place. IT organizations must have effective ways to meet increased workloads, manage staff levels, and to collaborate more effectively with business units. Building Operational Excellence provides valuable insight for organizing IT people and processes, showing you how to improve end-to-end management of critical resources. This book guides you through techniques of analysis, assessment, and change management that help create the center of excellence. It also offers techniques for implementing meaningful metrics to drive and demonstrate the business value of IT. Although you can find many reports and briefs on the topics of infrastructure and operations excellence, this book provides a single source of industry- approved, affordable information. | |
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Enriching the Value Chain - Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise
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How do forward-thinking IT professionals organize infrastructure and staff to meet the challenges of e-Business value chain initiatives head-on? Enriching the Value Chain gives you the answers: Strategic advice for mapping business drivers to a set of fundamental patterns and planning models. A way to organize e-Business infrastructure with your suppliers, trading partners, and customers. How to run e-Business infrastructure services for the long term with high quality. How to make applications become easier, more cost-effective, and quicker to integrate. Bruce Robertson and Valentin Sribar also are the authors of The Adaptive Enterprise. Picking up where that books leaves off, this companion volume tells you how to achieve success in value chain infrastructure planning. | |
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Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology - Practical Startegies for IT and Business Managers
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In today's fast moving competitive business environment, companies increasingly demand that IT investments demonstrate business value through measurable results. David Sward directly addresses this challenge in his book Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology. Intended for IT professionals and consultants as well as business managers, this book covers one of the most important strategies any company can establish to help manage IT in the coming years. Namely, the creation of an IT Business Value Program to execute systematic customer focused approaches to determine the business value for any IT investment an organization may make. Expanding on concepts offered in Martin Curley's Managing IT for Business Value, and linking business value programs with CMF frameworks, Sward explains how business value programs are established; measured; maintained; and governed; providing a blueprint for evaluating IT investments and equipping the reader with the tools required for success. Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology is a rich collection of methodology, processes, metrics, supported with examples from IT @ Intel and other IT organizations. Based on financial concepts and drawing on his background as a Human Factors Engineer, Sward makes the case that the process of establishing and running a business value program can ultimately create a new mindset for IT professionals. While Sward recognizes this will not happen overnight, he believes it serves to instill a belief that an organization can and will create a competitive advantage and increase shareholder value not by just deploying information technology, but by deploying the right information technology by linking IT to corporate objectives and focusing all efforts on the requirements of the end user. | |
