This book will simply provide you with four
- Proven ways to make the contribution of the IT function as beneficial as possible to the business it serves;
- Proven ways to ensure that the IT function is fully recognized for the positive impact it has on business performance;
- Enough explicit examples to instill confidence that these approaches are doable in any IT organization; and,
- Advice on how to get started, even though you have no buy-in except your own.
I've found that the collective use and adaptation of these lessons has an important an IT function that is continuously improving its effectiveness to the enterprise to help it become ever more competitive.
More importantly, the book explains how IT professionals and general managers can use collaboration, communication and persuasion to do that. More than technology itself, it is about people and relationships. Unlike technology, those things don't change.
It will also give IT professionals insight into ways to make their IT career last and make it count, remain enthusiastic about their contributions and improve their sense of accomplishment and reward.