Book description
Uncover the secrets of an award-winning IT function and apply them to your business!
Global management, technology and outsourcing company Accenture has achieved incredible results through the transformation of its IT function. It has doubled its revenues in ten years, significantly decreased its IT spending despite an increase in workforce of nearly 300%, and its number of satisfied customers is growing and growing. Discover how it has achieved this, and how you can realize similar benefits in your organization.
The key to unlocking your IT function's hidden potential
Running IT like a Business will show you how your IT function can provide much more than products and services and add real value to your business. With clear strategies, helpful diagrams and real-life examples, this book will give you the keys to unlocking your IT function's hidden potential.
The benefits
This book will show you how your IT function can:
The secrets
Robert E. Kress will let you in on some of Accenture's secrets to its award-winning way of running IT like a business, including:
Buy this book and see how Accenture's strategies will work for you, too!
"Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: IT Strategy and Governance
- Chapter 2: Crafting a Menu of Managed Services
- Chapter 3: Tracking IT Performance
- Chapter 4: Creating Value across the Enterprise
- Chapter 5: Tricks of the Trade for Running IT like a Business
- Chapter 6: Toward High-performance IT
- Chapter 7: Accenture’s IT Journey
- ITG Resources
Product information
- Title: Running IT Like a Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Accenture's Internal IT
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2011
- Publisher(s): IT Governance Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849283588
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