Book description
Timely guidance for transforming IT into a strategic business partner
Today's leaders are expected to reduce costs, increase productivity,
drive innovation and help the business identify and pursue new
business opportunities. Successful IT leaders will be the ones that
become strategic business partners and decision influencers in their
organizations. Unleashing the Power of IT describes in
actionable detail, the new mindset, core skill set, and interpersonal
tool set that are necessary for IT leaders to thrive in today's
increasingly complex challenging business environment.
- Provides tangible, hard-hitting, real-world strategies, techniques
and approaches that will immediately transform your IT workforce and
culture
- Includes Top Ten lists of tips and techniques, proven frameworks
and practical guidance to help you launch and sustain your IT
culture change and professional development initiatives
- Addresses how to build a client-focused IT culture; move your
organization from order takers to trusted business partners, market
IT's value, lead change with confidence, manage projects and vendor
relationships
A special feature of this book includes a chapter profiling several
world-class organizations that have implemented the principles in this
book. Learn about the culture change challenges they overcame and
benefit from their best practices and successes.
Dan Roberts
is President and CEO of Ouellette & Associates Consulting, Inc.,
the IT leadership and professional development company known globally
for developing the "human side" of the IT equation. Drawing on
more than twenty-five years of industry experience, and based on their
work helping more than 3,000 IT organizations transform their workforces
and cultures, Roberts and his team share a road map for succeeding in
today's increasingly complex, ever-changing business environment.
Roberts has contributed to several books and published numerous articles
in leading industry journals on topics relating to IT transformation and
preparing IT for the future. To learn more, visit www. ouellette-online. com.
OUELLETTE & ASSOCIATES CONSULTING, INC., has worked with
more than 3,000 IT and shared service organizations since its founding
in 1984 and is the leading provider of IT professional development and
project management training, focusing on the "human side of
technology." Unleashing the Power of IT: Bringing People,
Business, and Technology Together has been years in the making
and is based on this extensive real-world experience.
