Running IT like a Business

Description

Learn how to run your IT function like a business from the Accenture experts!

Information Technology (IT) has migrated over the past half-century from a specialised technical discipline staffed by computer scientists to the position it occupies today, at the very centre of enterprise capabilities and assets.Regardless of industry sector or geographic location, running a company, a governmental agency or an enterprise of any other kind has quite simply become inconceivable without the technologies, skills and resources found in the typical IT function.

The IT function - essential to every business

The centrality of IT as a tool for every organisation provides the rationale for this book. If a professionally run IT function is essential to every business, government or non-profit enterprise, then running IT like a business is the only logical way to run IT.

The Accenture story

Running IT like a Business: Accenture's Step-by-Step Guide, shows how this has been Accenture's approach since the company was first established. It looks at the Accenture story, covering the following:

* IT Strategy and Governance
* Crafting a menu of managed services
* Tracking IT performance
* Creating value across the Enterprise
* Tricks of the trade
* High Performance IT
* Accenture's IT journey

About the author

Robert E. Kress is the COO of Accenture's high performance Information Technology (IT) organisation, which supports and advances the business goals of a $22 billion company with more than 215,000 employees in 52 countries. He has overall responsibility for running IT like a business within the organisation. Robert manages the organisation's global IT operation, including direct management of IT governance, strategy, planning, risk management, supplier and contract management, audits and IT policy, as well as communications, business performance, finance, human resources, deployable resources and organisational development.

Robert's first book, IT Governance to Drive High Performance: Lessons from Accenture, was published by IT Governance in 2010.