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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

nine

 

Graham wasn’t there. His PA, Judith, told us to sit down and brought us some coffee. At twenty-past four, Graham arrived and started talking while he took off his jacket, caught his breath, smiled and sat down.

“I’m sorry I’m late. You must be Christine. I’m Graham. Great to meet you. Ian, how’s it going? What have you got for me?”

I handed him a copy of my one-page summary. He sat back in his chair and put one foot up against the edge of his desk, leaned an arm on his knee and read it.

“This is good, Ian. Let’s talk about it. Firstly, I think you need to go for the jugular a bit more.”

“For instance?”

“OK. I think your tactics are fine as far as they go, but I reckon they are pussy-footing around the heart of the problem. Christine, unless you only came here to listen, what do you think?”

Christine looked over at me and I gestured for her to speak out.

“What I see when I work...