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fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology

By : Chris Potts
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fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology

By: Chris Potts

Overview of this book

FruITion discusses the problems faced by a CIO in today’s corporate world and provides solutions for integrating IT into business objectives to improve the business value. FruITion begins by stressing the importance of strategy to cover all the IT the company uses. Next, you will identify types of strategists using Graham’s Pyramid and learn the importance of shaping the strategy as per the company’s present condition. Then, you will study the basic strategy framework and formulate the strategy through re-iteration and evolution. Using the ‘de facto’ investment, you will drive discussion of strategic priorities to take maximum advantage of investments. Next, you will discover the advantages of plans B and C, and the benefits of using the strategy to test the relevance of the industry's best practices. By the end of this book, you will be able to design successful corporate strategy for information technology.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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epilogue

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As Christine and I left Graham’s office she took me by the elbow, dragged me into a nearby meeting room and half-slammed the door.

“When were you going to tell me about the work that you’ve got Barry doing?”

“What’s the problem?”

“If you’d told me what was going on we could have avoided Barry getting it wrong. We had already sorted out the basic template in the investment planning work that I led before. So on the one hand, I’m telling Graham about that and on the other you’ve got Barry doing what amounts to the same thing but making basic errors for all the world to see.”

“Graham is not the whole world.” As I said this she started to react, so I held up my hand to stop her, “But you’re right. Graham asked me to get the project numbers from Barry late last Friday and he’s been working on them...