Harvard business review on aligning technology with strategy

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Most companies waste billions of dollars on technology. Don't be one of them.

If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic potential--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are eight inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you:

- Clarify corporate strategy with your IT department

- Fund only IT projects that support your strategy

- Transform IT investments into profits

- Build one technology platform for your entire organization

- Adopt new technologies only when their best

practices are established

- Use analytics to make smart decisions at all levels

of your company

- Integrate social media into your business

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Six IT Decisions Your IT People Shouldn't Make (p. 1)
• Getting IT Right (p. 25)
• IT Doesn't Matter (p. 45)
• Bold Retreat: A New Strategy for Old Technologies (p. 71)
• Information Technology and the Board of Directors (p. 87)
• Competing on Analytics (p. 113)
• Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference (p. 141)
• Empowered (p. 169)
• Index (p. 189)