Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy

by Harvard Business Review

Overview

Most companies waste billions of dollars on technology. Don't be one of them.

If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic potential—but don't have time to find them—this book is for you. Here are eight inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you:

- Clarify corporate strategy with your IT department

- Fund only IT projects that support your strategy

- Transform IT investments into profits

- Build one technology platform for your entire organization

- Adopt new technologies only when their best

practices are established

- Use analytics to make smart decisions at all levels

of your company

- Integrate social media into your business

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781422162477
Publisher:	Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Harvard Business Review (Paperback)
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

If you need the best practices and ideas for the business challenges you face—but don't have time to find them—Harvard Business Review paperbacks are for you. Each book is a collection of HBR's inspiring and useful perspectives on a specific topic, all in one place.

Table of Contents

Six IT Decisions Your IT People Shouldn't Make
Getting IT Right
IT Doesn't Matter
Bold Retreat: A New Strategy for Old Technologies
Informaton Technology and the Board of Directors
Competing on Analytics
Investing in IT That Makes a Competitive Difference
Empowered