Running It Like A Business: Accenture's Step-By-Step Guide

Kress, Robert E.

ISBN 10: 1849283087 / ISBN 13: 9781849283083

Published by It Governance Publishing, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Running It Like A Business: Accenture's Step-By-Step Guide
• Publisher: It Governance Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849283087
• ISBN 13: 9781849283083
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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 specialized technical discipline staffed by computer scientists to the position it occupies today, at the very center 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 organization 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 organization, 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 company, including the direct management of IT governance, strategy, planning, risk management, audits and IT policy. Bob has extensive experience in IT planning, governance, technology operations, application development, product management, service planning and program management. Before joining the IT operation, he was an Accenture consultant, and developed and delivered complex IT transformation projects for clients.