Unleashing the Power of IT!
By Dan Roberts & Lou Markstrom
Go from the "IT guy" to trusted business partner...
If you're in IT, quite a lot is expected of you and your team: be technologically advanced, business-minded, customer-focused, and financially astute, all at once. In the face of unforgiving competition, rampant globalization, and demanding customers, business leaders are discovering that it's absolutely essential to have a strong, active partner keeping a firm hand on the decisions and strategies surrounding information technology. Unleashing the Power of IT provides tangible, hard-hitting, real-world strategies, techniques, and approaches that will immediately transform your IT workforce and culture. This book presents the new mindset, skill set, and tool set necessary for IT leaders to thrive in today's challenging environment.
Includes new discussion on social media
Offers online access to the IT Skill Builder Competency Assessment Tool
Features top ten lists of tips and techniques, proven frameworks, and practical guidance to help you launch and sustain your IT culture change and professional development initiatives
Profiling several world-class organizations that have implemented the principles in this book, Unleashing the Power of IT reveals the best practices to get you on the path to implementation.
Results!
By Lou Markstrom
How to produce RESULTS!
Whether it is referred to as reaching outcomes, achieving goals, or driving performance, the one thing that every organization or individual is looking for is the ability to produce consistent results in one or multiple areas.
The book is based on Lou Markstrom’s experience of working with over 35,000 people in a wide variety of organisations and industries over the last 25+ years. He found that in order to really produce results, 3 areas need to be addressed simultaneously. In RESULTS! we look at these areas:
Strategic Planning and Evaluating:
ANSWERS QUESTION: HOW TO DO IT
You need the ability to project a desired outcome and work backwards to identify the day to day activities that must be implemented to reach that outcome. In addition, you will learn to develop your plan and take into account the 5 critical elements that any business plan must have to be successful.Skill Development:
ANSWERS QUESTION: CAN YOU DO IT?
Once the plan and strategy is devised you and your team need to have the skills and abilities required to implement it. This could be hard technical skills or more likely the Professional Development skills of Leadership, Communication, Team Building, Negotiation, Relationship Building, Service Excellence, etc.Cultural and Personal Development:
ANSWERS QUESTION: WILL YOU DO IT?
Learn how to create a high performance culture for your organisation and a high performance mindset for your team members. Once you have the plan and the skills, you will find many still do not take the required action to implement them. There is an adjustment required in developing a proper mindset and attitude required to achieve the RESULTS that are desired. At an organisational or team level your culture must support the outcomes you are striving for and at an individual level, it comes down to mindset and attitude.The book teaches and illustrates how each of these areas can be addressed to achieve your desired results. Each section of the book contains specific exercises that you can utilise to address all three areas. It provides the experience of going through your own personal course and developing a plan and strategy to be implemented to get the results you are looking for. When you have completed the book, you won’t just have new knowledge and theory, you will have your own plan to produce your desired results.
