From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap

A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members

Tiffany Pham, David K. Pham, Andrew Pham

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781032605661
• eBook ISBN:
  9781315360324
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Whether you are a CEO, CFO, board member, or an IT executive, From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members lays out a practical, how-to approach to identifying business strategies and creating value-driven technology roadmaps in your organization. Unlike many other books on the subject, you will not find theories or grandiose ideas here. This book uses numerous examples, illustrations, and case studies to show you how to solve the real-world problems that business executives and technology leaders face on a day-to-day basis.

Filled with actionable advice you can use immediately, the authors introduce Agile and the Lean mindset in a manner that the people in your business and technology departments can easily understand. Ideal for executives in both the commercial and nonprofit sectors, it includes two case studies: one about a commercial family business that thrived to become a multi-million-dollar company and the other about a nonprofit association based in New York City that fights against child illiteracy.

Index

A

Action plan, 4, 245, 248, 250

Agile IT, 33–39

Agile organization, 33–39

Agile timeline, 114, 185

Analytics applications, 236

Annual revenue, 142

Application interface, 86, 245

Architectural assessment, 87, 158–159, 161, 200, 245

Artifact, 245

B

Balance sheet, pro forma, 30, 140

Bargaining power of customers, 18–21, 162, 245, 248

Bargaining power of suppliers, 18, 20–21, 202, 245, 247–248

Barriers to entry, 19, 245, 247

Batch interface, 245, 249

Board members, questions for, 225

Board review, 124

Budget, 114–116

Budget review, 145

Budget variance, 146

Business goals, 51, 75, 137, 141

Business goals review, 136–144

Business intelligence data architecture, 89–90

Business IT governance, 246

Business/IT strategic alignment, 246

Business model, 3, 5, 14, 20–21, 246

Business objectives, enterprise business architecture, 50–51

Business process, 36, 51–56, 59, 75–79, 100–101, 153, 169, 195, 207–208, 246, 248

Business process modeling, 55

Business process value modeling, 53–54, 246

enterprise business architecture, 53–58

symbols, 54

Business processes, enterprise business architecture, 51–57, 75–79

Business strategy, 7–31, 43–47, 92–99, 250

budget, 114–116

core competency, 11–17

criteria, 7–9

defining, 7–11

dynamic consistency, 9

enterprise architecture, 46

layers, 46–47

enterprise business processes, 94–95

external consistency, 9

financial goals, 26–27

five forces framework, 17–23

uses of, 22–23

future enterprise IT data architecture, 98–99

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Praise for From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• What Is This Book About?
• Preface
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Foreword
• SECTION I A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS STRATEGY: CONCEPTS AND FORMULATION
• SECTION II AN INTRODUCTION TO LEAN, LEAN AND AGILE ORGANIZATION, AND LEAN AND AGILE IT
• SECTION III FROM BUSINESS STRATEGY TO IT ROADMAP: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE (EA)
• SECTION IV FROM BUSINESS STRATEGY TO AN AGILE AND LEAN IT ROADMAP: THE FORMULATION PROCESS
• SECTION V FROM IT ROADMAP FORMULATION TO EXECUTION
• SECTION VI CASE STUDIES
• Appendix A: The 10 Questions an IT Leader Should Ask His or Her CEO or Board Members
• Appendix B: The 10 Questions the CEO or Board Member Should Ask His or Her IT Leader
• Appendix C: Leveraging Social Media for Business Strategy
• Appendix D: Leveraging Mobile Technology for Business Strategy
• Appendix E: Leveraging Cloud Computing for Business Strategy
• Appendix F: The Business Case for a New Business Technology Project
• Appendix G: Buy or Build (Commercial Off-the-Shelf Package Implementation or In-House Software Development)?
• Glossary
• Index