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Managing IT Innovation for Business Value 

Practical Strategies for IT and Business Managers 
by Esther Baldwin and Martin Curley 

Successful companies actively cultivate new ideas, put those ideas to work quickly and efficiently, and harvest the business value benefits of successful innovations. Discussions of innovation often focus on what a company offers, that is, its products and services. In Managing Information Technology Innovation for Business Value, Esther Baldwin and Martin Curley show how successful IT innovations pay back handsomely as well. Innovation is not just about what a company offers, innovation is also about how a company conducts business and how IT innovation can transform an organization into a significantly more efficient company. 

 

Managing Information Technology for Business Value 

Practical Strategies for IT and Business Managers 
by Martin Curley

Managing Information Technology for Business Value is Martin Curley's call for IT and business managers to reformulate the way they manage IT. Traditionally, IT success has been measured in terms of IT parameters such as up time, capacity, and processing speed. 
 
It is Curley's contention that if IT is to deliver business value, IT should be measured in core business terms---for example, customer satisfaction, revenue growth, and profitability. 
 
At a time when some corporations are reducing IT spending and once again looking at IT as a cost center, Martin Curley's Managing Information Technology for Business Value provides a necessary and timely counterbalance.

 

Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology

Practical Strategies for IT and Business Managers
by David Sward

Intended for IT professionals and consultants as well as business managers, this book covers one of the most important strategies any company can establish to help manage IT in the coming years. Namely, the creation of an IT Business Value Program to execute systematic customer focused approaches to determine the business value for any IT investment an organisation may make.

Expanding on concepts offered in Martin Curley's Managing IT for Business Value, and linking business value programs with CMF frameworks, Sward explains how business value programs are established; measured; maintained; and governed; providing a blueprint for evaluating IT investments and equipping the reader with the tools required for success.

Measuring the Business Value of Information Technology is a rich collection of methodology, processes, metrics, supported with examples from IT @ Intel and other IT organisations.

 

IVI in the News

Global Focus – The EFMD Business Magazine

Issue 01 2008  

Many argue that CIO really stands for “career is over”. But given the right tools, the CIO could become an organisation’s “Chief Innovation Officer”. This is what the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), aims to do. IVI, co-founded by Intel and NUIM, will help CIOs manage IT as a utility to deliver value and then to really exploit IT as ‘Innovation Technology’. .

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This article was first published in Global Focus, the business magazine of the international EFMD network. More information is available via www.efmd.org

Knowledge Ireland

September 2007 

The IVI wants to establish a framework underpinned by two core themes: IT Value and IT Innovation. To that end, it hopes to propose methodologies, tools and practices that will allow organisations to manage their IT capability. Initially, the consortium’s work will focus on two areas: developing and gathering support for the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) and the IT Capability Maturity Model (IT-CMM). Curley said the group plans to publish “something that we hope will be of use to the CIO community” some time next year. He describes it as a “compass for CIOs” – a roadmap of best practices that have been show to work in other companies or public sector organisations.

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CIO Connect

Winter 2007  

In the article titled “Best Behaviour” Peter O’Shea, CIO of the Irish Electricity Supply board, discusses the work of the IVI and how it benefit him in his role as CIO

“ My line on IVI is that it helps me rationalise what’s happening in the business to provide me with a way of better shaping my strategy blueprint.” Peter O’Shea  

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