Technology Scorecards: Aligning IT Investments With Business Performance - Hardcover

Bansal, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470464569 ISBN 13: 9780470464564

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Plan, execute, and sustain a successful IT campaign with Sam Bansal's perfect scorecard approach

First came the dot.com bust, then the IT squeeze. Despite software being the tail that wags the dog in most corporations, the cham-pions of IT, the CIOs, are constantly under fire to justify and maximize their IT investments―past, present, and future.

Learn how to establish Key Performance Indicators and Value Scorecards for IT to ensure maximum value in your corporation with the step-by-step approach found in Sam Bansal's Technology Scorecards.

Drawing on Dr. Bansal's over forty years of field experience in the management of large and complex projects, Technology Scorecards shows you how to:

• Create Scorecards geared towards your organization's business goals
• Make quantum improvements in cost, value, and productivity using KPIs and Scorecards
• Increase your company's net by as much as 100% just by improving your supply chain management by 50%
• Impact your top line the most through product life-cycle management
• Develop a realistic strategy through Scorecards, which can then be used to drive IT investments that maximize your business performance

Enhance profitability. Streamline strategy execution. Lower costs. Learn how to align your IT plans with your business objectives and optimize your company's overall performance with the perfect scorecard approach found in Technology Scorecards.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Are you dissatisfied with your business software? You're not alone. Fully 75% of organizations believe their business software is not meeting expectations. The letdown, or failure, of the technology cannot be pinned on the technology itself. Successful implementation of technology involves the integration of People, Processes, Technologies, and Systems--key factors in the successful implementation of technology. If you miss any one of these critical elements, you are bound to fail. Taking you step by step through the process of establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Technology Scorecards shows you how to manage your technology investments as part of an overall performance management strategy and invest in the areas that promise maximum impact.

Sharing his decades of experience in business value creation through the appropriate use of technology, author Sam Bansal walks you through the process of establishing Business KPIs, benchmarking them, and preparing a scorecard to show you the potential value your company can gain. By helping you establish achievable expectations, he then shows you how to integrate People, Information, Business Processes, and Technology within your framework.

After the initial groundwork is laid, Technology Scorecards delves way beyond project management to show you how to:

• Develop IT strategy responsive to business strategy
• Calculate the value contribution as derived from the SCOR Card
• Translate the business blueprint to the hardware, software, and network structures to create solution architecture
• Work with the "champions" of the project and involve them in the project
• Estimate and eliminate risk in the various phases of the project
• Establish and enforce a quality regimen
• Conduct ongoing measurement and tracking of the KPIs
• Present findings to stakeholders to continue their support

Aligning your investment strategy with your high-impact processes and benchmarking a projected return on investment is an effective way to achieve maximum impact in technology spending. Technology Scorecards' strategy-focused plan for your IT investments will help you reap greater financial gains, employee involvement, and sustainable success.

Whether you're a CIO, CFO, CEO, IT manager, or a consultant, Technology Scorecards provides you with the tools you need to immediately estimate and establish what value to expect and what technology is required to achieve it. Turn strategy into quantifiable performance--using the blueprint to IT success found in Technology Scorecards.

About the Author:

Dr. Sam Bansal has years of experience in the enterprise software industry, primarily focused in consulting. He is head of SIS and Partner of Elixir Netcom Solutions, a tech-nology solutions provider. Bansal has worked for large high-tech multinationals and vendors consulting on everything from strategy formulation to detailed blueprinting to execution in the CIO and management consulting and business development realms. His solution architectures are aimed at business value creation through the appropriate use of technology.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470464569
• ISBN 13: 9780470464564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 319