Unleashing the Power of It: Bringing People, Business, and Technology Together - Hardcover

by Dan Roberts (Author)

Go from the "IT guy" to trusted business partner

If you're in IT, quite a lot is expected of you and your team: be technologically advanced, business-minded, customer-focused, and financially astute, all at once. In the face of unforgiving competition, rampant globalization, and demanding customers, business leaders are discovering that it's absolutely essential to have a strong, active partner keeping a firm hand on the decisions and strategies surrounding information technology. Unleashing the Power of IT provides tangible, hard-hitting, real-world strategies, techniques, and approaches that will immediately transform your IT workforce and culture, presenting the new mindset, skill set, and tool set necessary for IT leaders to thrive in today's challenging environment.

• Includes new discussion on social media
• Offers online access to the IT Skill Builder Competency Assessment Tool
• Features top ten lists of tips and techniques, proven frameworks, and practical guidance to help you launch and sustain your IT culture change and professional development initiatives

Profiling several world-class organizations that have implemented the principles in this book, Unleashing the Power of IT reveals the best practices to get you on the path to implementation.

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Today's successful CIOs have transformed themselves into business leaders who bring technology to the table of strategic decision making. They are building new cultures based upon a philosophy that says "We Are the Business," no longer chasing the IT/business alignment pipe dream. They are equipping their IT workforce with the new skills and tools they need to address rising demand and expectations, to better anticipate and innovate, and to help their companies attain competitive advantage by strategically leveraging the power of IT.

Capturing more than 250 years of combined experience in one volume, the team of contributing authors reveal what it takes to build the IT culture of the 21st century, moving up the maturity curve and becoming influential, strategic partners. Written for CIOs and IT managers, Unleashing the Power of IT, takes a close look at:

• Transforming Your IT Team
• Driving Change With Intent
• Building a Consultative, Client-Focused IT Culture
• Creating an Awareness of IT's Value
• Creating the Social Organization
• Assessing and Developing Your Core Competencies

Packed with checklists and diagrams, this book enables you to put these new insights immediately into action and now includes a free trial of the IT Skill Builder competency assessment and talent development tool.

Author Biography

DAN ROBERTS is President and CEO of Ouellette & Associates, an IT-specific consulting and professional development firm known globally for developing the "human side" of the IT equation. Roberts is a keynote speaker and panel moderator at corporate and industry events and has published numerous articles on topics relating to transforming IT cultures. Roberts is co-author of Confessions of a Successful CIO, a book that captures the secret sauce of 10 industry leading, "bet-the-farm" CIOs.

OUELLETTE & ASSOCIATES CONSULTING, INC. has worked with more than 3,000 IT and shared service organizations since its founding in 1984. The firm works closely with CIOs and IT leadership teams to build the culture and assess and develop the "Core" skills that are necessary for success in today's increasingly complex, always changing, need-for-speed business environment. To learn more, visit www.ouellette-online.com.