Why Is Corporate IT Never Fast Enough?
Despite the quantum leaps that information technology has made in the past decades, the corporate function does not get any better at delivering business solutions at an acceptable pace?
A System that Yields Lower Quality, continuously.
This book shows how and why your IT team is systematically delivering lower-quality systems with increasing complexity, instead of spearheading the drive for business agility. Yet, have no fear; this is no techy treatise. The unwanted complexity is technical in nature, but the root causes are not. Decision rights, accountabilities and performance measures are the guilty sources of undesirable behaviors that have been lasting for decades with no signs of improvement. And this standstill will continue for decades to come unless business people change the rules of the game. Here you will find many corporate IT behaviors rarely disclosed that remain discretionary internal topics or plainly technical issues, but nevertheless have a major impact on your IT strategy.
An Executive Leadership Guide for Sustainable Organizational Change Leading to Genuine Business Agility
These volumes are targeted to executive leaders who rely on IT to run their businesses. Volume One will help you understand important internal IT dynamics that step down quality and hinder business agility. Volume Two describes the game-changing IT strategies to creating the corporate IT model you need to make a long-lasting difference: instill a true paradigm shift towards an information technology governance strategy that puts your business interests above the rest.
About the Author: R.M. Bastien is a corporate IT insider writing from the trenches. Over the course of three decades, he's held multiple roles in the IT departments of midsize to large organizations: programmer, business analyst, tester, database administrator, solution architect, data architect, enterprise architect, systems integrator. He also held several IT management positions, leading teams of IT architects in insurance, travel and transportation, telecommunications and banking. As an IT project management professional, he delivered projects of all kinds and has overseen the implementation and continuous improvement of project management offices. As a consultant, he helps his customers implement governance mechanisms to improve communications, quality or control and has made several organizational assessments of their IT architecture capability. Mr. Bastien holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems and a research-oriented master's in business administration. He's been a certified project management professional (PMP)(c) since 2002. When he's not busy helping customers, he develops and offers seminars on enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture and soft skills for IT architects. When he's not busy professionally, he renovates old houses or skips sailboats across oceans.