IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

by Peter Weill, Jeanne W. Ross

Overview

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company objectives and monitors performance and accountability. Based on a study of 250 enterprises worldwide, IT Governance shows how to design and implement a system of decision rights that will transform IT from an expense to a profitable investment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781422163344
Publisher:	Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date:	05/06/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter Weill is the Director of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and a Senior Research Scientist at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Jeanne W. Ross is Principal Research Scientist at CISR.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 - IT Governance Simultaneously Empowers and Controls

Chapter 2 - Five Key IT Decisions: Making IT a Strategic Asset

Chapter 3 - IT Governance Archetypes for Allocating Decision Rights

Chapter 4 - Mechanisms for Implementing IT Governance

Chapter 5 - What IT Governance Works Best

Chapter 6 - Linking Strategy, IT Governance and Performance

Chapter 7 - Government and Not for Profit Organizations

Chapter 8 - Leadership Principles for IT Governance

Appendix A - Research Sites

Appendix B - Measuring Governance Performance

Index