Barton sought answers from his girlfriend, Maggie Landis, who also happened to be a management consultant. She suggested that Barton start by meeting with leaders from the other business units, and ask them how their business needs were being met by IT. By strange coincidence, Barton also ran into Davies, during a jog. He requested that they formally schedule a management meeting to set direction for the department. The managers requested additional staff to help with discussions but Barton preferred it be management only.
Throughout the story Barton discovered that IT was very complex and that it was nearly impossible to be a specialist in every field. When he was head of the Loan and Operations he had the skill and knowledge to do the job of any employee that worked in his department.
The Exchange specialist may not know anything about. Net programming. Each department was asked about spending and the bottom line. Barton had to justify the cost of the IT department.
Through the process he discovered the IT department was funded through a complicated charge-back system that subjectively billed the other departments for their IT related services. In addition IT was generally viewed as an unwelcome expense from the other business units.
Scope Creep Bad.. Landis introduced Barton to competing philosophies regarding IT value. Carr argued that IT investment did not create value. IT was a commodity and did not provide a competitive advantage. However, MIT professor, Erick Brynjolfsson argued IT created value in a number of ways: Firms that invested heavily in IT deployed business processes quickly Competition was able to copy new innovations quickly.
Firms that invested heavily in IT had increased market share. SOA is a foundation that is used to combine different application services that can be combined to deliver new functionality.
Web based portals that support business objectives can be considered SOA. Business Intelligence involves data mining. BI analyzes all available data, such as customers, sales, completion, and identifies trends. Landis gave an example of BI from a Spanish company called Zara. The clothing retailer used its point-of-sale data to identify their hottest selling items. Condition: New. The Adventures of an IT Leader.
Seller Inventory BBS Brand New VCF. Book Description Hardback. Updated ed. Language: English. Brand new Book. What does it take to lead and manage your company's tech? You'll get a deeper understanding of the role of IT in your own organization as you see Jim struggle through a tough first year, handling and fumbling all kinds of management challenges.
Although fictional, the scenarios are based on the authors' long experience working with real-life companies across industries and sectors. You can also test yourself and think about how to use the book's lessons in your own company by reading the authors' "Reflection" questions at the end of each chapter.
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Skip to main content. Start your free trial. A good IT leader must also be a strong business leader. The Adventures of an IT Leader is both an insightful story and an instructive guidebook. You can read it from beginning to end or treat it as a series of cases, skipping around to different chapters that address your most pressing needs.
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