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fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology

By : Chris Potts
Book Image

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

eight

 

At about half past eight on Monday morning, Christine and I met on our strategy sofa again, coffees and croissants in hand. Outside the window the sun was striking the Thames through broken cloud cover.

“How was your weekend?” she asked.

“Good, thanks. Yours?”

“Likewise.”

“So we’re seeing Graham at four this afternoon. He wants us to say why we think the company is not already achieving his Promise and what, in principle, needs to be done about it. I spent some time after we finished on Friday thinking through everything, including the question about my role in the WE community. I made some progress, but don’t have the answer yet. I’ve never produced a strategy that fundamentally questioned my own purpose in life, especially one that’s an inverted Trojan Horse.”

It was a really clumsy link but I wanted to tell her about my Trojan Horse brainwave.

“Pardon?”

“IT. Inverted Trojan...