See Inside!

List Price

$35.00

Textbook Details

  • ISBN:
    1591392535
  • ISBN-13:
    9781591392538
  • PUB. DATE:
    June 2004
  • PUBLISHER:
    Harvard Business Review Press
Advertisement

IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results by Peter Weill, Jeanne Ross, Jeanne W. Ross

$35.00 List Price
  • Overview
  • EditorialReviews
  • CustomerReviews
  • Features
  • marketplace

Customer Reviews

Real Information about Information Technologyby Anonymous

Customer Rating:
See Detailed Ratings

Authors Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross provide a thoughtful overview of an important topic - how companies govern information technology and how they can maximize their IT investments. Although computer professionals don?t walk around in white lab coats the way they did in the early 1970s, many corporate cultures tend to isolate IT professionals. Although studies show that companies which govern their...

Overview -

IT Governance

Product Details

  • Pub. Date: June 2004
  • Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
  • Sales Rank: 203,298

Synopsis

Firms with superior IT governance have twice the profit of 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.

Biography

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.