The Next Leap in Productivity: What Top Managers Really Need to Know about Information Technology Adam Kolawa (Wiley, 2009)
How much should top management actually care for IT? A lot. That’s the answer this book substantiates by argumenting, in a giant leap forward, how increasing IT productivity will contribute to a huge improvement of business productivity.
The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-created Value Through Global Networks C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan (McGraw-Hill, 2008)
The key to creating value and future growth of every business depends on access to a worldwide network of means to enable unique experiences with users. In order to achieve this, the complete management of an organization shoulf transform its business processes, technical systems and supply management.
IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross (Harvard Business Press, 2009)
In many organisations the return on investments in IT falls short, despite sky-high investments. The challenge to turn this tide demands new levels in IT knowledge: organisations where every manager, even the non-IT managers, has thorough knowledge of IT, turn out to be 20% more profitable than their competition. This book explains how you as a non-IT manager can easily obtain this knowledge.
Business/IT Fusion: How to Move Beyond Alignment and Transform IT in Your Organization Peter Hinssen (Mach Media, 2008)
Business and IT alignment is like a good marriage. It’s a road and not a destination. Peter Hinssen takes this one step further and suggests Business/IT Fusion, the mixing of IT with business. This book gives a roadmap and discusses topics like marketing of IT, intelligence governance and the architecture of change.
Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work Steve Steinhilber (Harvard Business School Press, 2008)
From the series Memo to the CEO, this book dilates upon the question of how organisations can have success with strategic alliances. It describes the three essential building blocks of successful alliances and explains how to establish: the right framework, the right organisation and the right relationships. It shows how to manage strategic partnerships more effectively and maximize their value in a complex and changing business environment.
Managing IT Innovation for Business Value Esther Baldwin and Martin Curley (Intel Press, 2007)
Discussions of innovation often focus on what a company offers, that is, its products and services. This book shows how successful IT innovations pay back handsomely as well. Innovation is not just about what a company offers, innovation is also about how a company conducts business and how IT in support of innovation can transform an organization into a significantly more efficient company.
X-teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate and Succeed Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresnan (Harvard Business Press, 2007)
The IT department cannot work on solutions in an isolated environment. It can, but it doesn’t work. The most noticeable difference between the conventional team and the X-Team is that the focus of their activity is external. Get out in the field and start talking to your clients.
IT Success! Towards a New Model for Information Technology Michael Gentle (Wiley, 2007)
With all our experience gathered in the past years, we are still unable to fluently translate the demands and wishes of the business to IT. Perhaps we should change the current systems of specification and building. This book analyses the current shortcomings, and proposes an alternative approach.
Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World Peter Merholz e.a. (O’Reilly, 2008)
More and more, customers come into contact with the IT services of the organisation, for example through web applications. A proper IT organisation not only recognises technological possibilities, but the application of design as well. How do relations with our IT work? Because sometimes IT does not only support the product, it is de product.
IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage George Westerman and Richard Hunter (Harvard Business Press, 2007)
When IT breaks down, in many cases the business breaks down as well. This book handles the threats the use of IT brings about. Not written from a scenario of fear, but from the perspective of hope. Because when you manage risks successfully, suddenly changes appear to improve business and IT.
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