From Business Strategy to IT Action will be published by John Wiley and Sons and will be available to the general public in February, 2004. To reserve your copy, request sample chapters, or for any other comments or questions you may have, please email us at
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Getting the Most from the IT Spend

From Business Strategy to IT Action presents an integrated approach to controlling IT budgets and getting the biggest bang for the IT buck. Starting with a coordinated business/IT strategic planning process and continuing through to business/IT performance measurement, the authors present a suite of tools for understanding, managing, and controlling the entire IT spend, all aimed toward producing exactly the right IT actions for the organization.

The central theme of the book is the Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain, a framework for organizing the processes that move a company from business strategy to the right IT decisions. The Value Chain integrates 5 practices that a company can use to get the most bottom-line impact from IT activities, including:

• Strategic IT Demand/Supply Planning

• Innovation

• Prioritization

• Alignment

• Performance Measurement

To support these practices, the authors present robust Portfolio Management and Culture Management practices, all focused on making IT produce measurable bottom-line impact. Finally, all of these are tied together with the Business Value Maturity Model, a tool for assessing the readiness of the organization to use IT most effectively for the business.