Information Services departments in many businesses fail to align with the business and struggle to provide the proper level of business and support. The resulting poor performance impedes business performance. These performance issues are not unique from business to business or from industry to industry. They follow a set of repeatable pattern. Periodic failures on the part of the Information Services are imminent and predictable. They are the result of a lack of strategy. The objective of this book is to provide strategic solutions for executive leadership with ultimate responsibility for...

A clearly defined IT Strategy is the secret solution to technology success. An IT Strategy is the framework for investing in the right technology, making the right project choices, avoiding the common technology mistakes and delivering the right technology in support of the business. If you don't know where you are going... any road will do. If you do not have a strategic plan and a strategic destination... any technology will do... but you will never build a cohesive solution set.

From Richard P. Skinner, the author of IT is about the Strategy, IT Tactics tells you how to execute your chosen IT Strategy and turn that strategy into reality. IT is about the Strategy provided proof that a clearly defined IT Strategy is the secret solution to technology success. An IT Strategy is the framework for investing in the right technology, making the right project choices, avoiding the common technology mistakes and delivering the right technology in support of the business. IT Tactics tells you how to execute that strategy. It provides proven battle tested tactics as a blueprint...