books by Jeanne W. Ross     books:     Jeanne W. Ross      Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Great Book Our company is big on this book. our IT CIO has distributed several copies of it to several key people in the organisation.             Cash In on the Learning: Realizing the Benefits of Enterprise Architecture David C. Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 This chapter explains how companies get unique benefits at each of the four stages of enterprise architecture maturity by implementing different management practices and roles at each stage to formalize organizational learning.             It Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain Peter Weill, Jeanne W. Ross Harvard Business School Press, 2009 Tired of spending money on IT without understanding your investment? Not getting the results you need in the time frame you expected? Then you and your firm are probably not IT savvy.             Implement the Operating Model Via Enterprise Architecture David C. Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 This chapter discusses how to make enterprise architecture a powerful management tool for aligning business and technology initiatives throughout a company, illustrating effective practices through case studies of MetLife, ING DIRECT, Carlson Companies, and Delta Airlines.             Use Enterprise Architecture to Guide Outsourcing David C. Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 IT and IT-enabled business processes are candidates for outsourcing, which can be a valuable approach to helping mature an enterprise architecture. But a company can lose ground if outsourcing is inappropriately applied. This chapter discusses how enterprise architecture can be a guide to outsourcing decisions.             Define Your Operating Model: Designing a Foundation for Execution David C. Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 In this chapter, the authors introduce the operating model as the first essential element for creating the foundation for execution. They describe four different types of operating models, using case studies of JM Family Enterprises, Merrill Lynch, Dow Chemical, TD Banknorth, and Schneider National.             Navigate the Stages of Enterprise Architecture Maturity David C. Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 In this chapter, the authors introduce the four stages of enterprise architecture maturity and discuss how to apply them in your company.             Take Charge!: The Leadership Agenda--Leveraging a Foundation for Execution David C. Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 This chapter reviews the symptoms of an ineffective foundation for execution and provides six steps for rethinking your foundation, along with ten leadership principles for building and leveraging your foundation for execution.             Making IT Matter (HBR Article Collection) Charlie S. Feld, Donna B. Stoddard, ... Harvard Business Review, 2004 Companies waste $500 billion worldwide on information technology. Why? Many CEOs, COOs, and CFOs don't see IT for what it is: a tool to support their firms' competitive strategy. Instead, they consider it a mysterious function that their firms must have--but that they'd rather not manage or integrate with the rest of the company. Result? Non-IT ...             Six IT Decisions Your IT People Shouldn't Make (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill Harvard Business Review, 2002 Advice to business execs: How to not let IT eat your company The core of this ten-page enhanced article from the Harvard Business Review is that companies which successfully manage their IT "generate as much as 40% higher returns" than do others. The authors claim that these successful companies are the ones whose business ...             Canadian Imports and Trade Issues James E. McCarthy, Eugene H. Buck, ... Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2008 The United States and Canada maintain the world s largest trading relationship, one that has been strengthened during the past fifteen years by the approval of two multilateral free trade agreements. Although commercial disputes may not be quite as prominent now as they have been in the past, the two countries in recent years have engaged in ...             Build the Foundation One Project at a Time: Implementing an IT Architecture David C. Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 In this chapter, the authors introduce one of the necessary elements for creating the foundation for execution--the IT engagement model--and examine its three ingredients: IT governance, project management, and linkages connecting the two.             What IT Governance Works Best Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill Harvard Business School Press, 2004 This chapter shows how top-performing enterprises govern differently from the typical enterprise and from each other to uncover what IT governance arrangements work best.             Linking Strategy, IT Governance, and Performance Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill Harvard Business School Press, 2004 This chapter looks at IT governance design, identifying the range of strategic objectives enterprises pursue and describing how enterprises harmonize individual IT decisions and how IT governance changes to reflect strategic business changes.             IT Governance Archetypes for Allocating Decision Rights Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill Harvard Business School Press, 2004 This chapter discusses how IT governance differs across five decision domains and addresses who should make IT decisions.          products you might be interested in search for books archetypes, architecture, governance, implementing, outsourcing, performance      geepe.com    web randomly chosen DVD: Learning Guitar for Dummies