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Does it seem you've formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm
still can't get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for
business execution--an IT infrastructure and digitized business
processes to automate your company's core capabilities. In
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for
Business Execution, authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David
C. Robertson show you how. The key? Make tough decisions about
which processes you must execute well, then implement the IT
systems needed to digitize those processes. Citing numerous
companies worldwide, the authors show how constructing the right
enterprise architecture enhances profitability and time to market,
improves strategy execution, and even lowers IT costs. Though
clear, engaging explanation, they demonstrate how to define your
operating model--your vision of how your firm will survive and
grow--and implement it through your enterprise architecture. Their
counterintuitive but vital message: when it comes to executing your
strategy, your enterprise architecture may matter far more than
your strategy itself.
Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing
full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments
are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed. These
challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all
managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology
assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies
with IT-savvy managers are 20 percent more profitable than their
competitors. In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the
world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how
non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical,
the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership
skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy.
You'll discover how to: -Define your firm's operating model-how IT
can help you do business -Revamp your IT funding model to support
your operating model -Build a digitized platform of business
processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model -Determine
IT decision rights -Extract more business value from your IT assets
Packed with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred
organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required
reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's
performance to new heights.
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