IT business partnerships : a field guide, paving the way for business & technology convergence / Joseph Topinka, foreword by John Sculley.

As a career CIO and founder of CIOMentor, Joseph Topinka draws on his own experiences implementing IT Business Partnership Programs to present an actionable, how-to field guide to true business technology convergence.

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Main Author: Topinka, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Cio Mentor, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Why IT business partnerships matter
  • Legitimizing the role of the IT business partner
  • Structuring the IT business partner function
  • Obstacles to implementing IT IT business partnerships
  • Seeing is believing: the importance of field research
  • Field research example: a "day in the life"
  • Words matter: the power of language
  • The IT business partner's role in governance and strategy
  • IT business partners and the project management office
  • IT business partner tools
  • Building a business case
  • Understanding how your company competes
  • Managing inside your company
  • Collaboration and teams
  • Selling IT internally
  • Connecting and networking
  • Hype and the marketplace.