Aligning Technology With Strategy

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

Table of Contents
People who are good with computer hardware and software often do not have the same types of priorities and motivations as those who run the businesses which employ them, and accordingly large enterprises usually encounter some difficulty in making Information Technology work well within the context of the business. This book provides a collection of eight articles published in the past decade addressing these issues. Some of the ideas discussed:

Six IT Decisions Your IT People Shouldn't Make: Jeanne Ross and Peter Weill: A company's management team as a whole must take responsibility for particular strategic decisions regarding IT, rather than simply delegating those decisions to the IT department.