Technology Scorecards: Aligning IT Investments with Business Performance
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Plan, execute, and sustain a successful IT campaign with Sam Bansal’s perfect scorecard approach First came the dot.com bust, then the IT squeeze. Despite software being the tail that wags the dog in most corporations, the cham-pions of IT, the CIOs, are constantly under fire to justify and maximize their IT investments—past, present, and future. Learn how to establish Key Performance Indicators and Value Scorecards for IT to ensure maximum value in your corporation with the step-by-step approach found in Sam Bansal’s Technology Scorecards. Drawing on Dr. Bansal’s over forty years of field experience in the management of large and complex projects, Technology Scorecards shows you how to: Create Scorecards geared towards your organization’s business goals Make quantum improvements in cost, value, and productivity using KPIs and Scorecards Increase your company’s net by as much as 100% just by improving your supply chai… More >>
Technology Scorecards: Aligning IT Investments with Business Performance
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This book is based on real life experience of the author of doing global projects with multiple stake holders. It is systematically laid down. First the author’s motivation to write this book is described and then the business drivers and resulting benefits of selected and important enterprise technologies are given. This leads to the estimation of business values of the subject technologies. Then the scorecard methodology is described to develop the strategy in synch with corporate goals. Rest of the book takes you through detailed steps required to take the projects through successful completion, delivering as per the KPIs of business, established during the strategy phase. Strategy development and execution is covered in 4 chapters and a total of 16 sub chapters, covering all aspects of planning and execution.
In the opinions of one of the CEOs of a very large Semi Conductor company
“Sam, I will get a copy and read it. The title still carries a unique message, tieing IT to business performance. These two are hardly ever used in the same sentence. IT is always looked upon as a must have for almost every reason except business performance”.
Good luck with the book.
My response to him is not only the title but the book changes the paradigm of Projects. As it dles not talk about doing the Project Management based on the old IT matrics but on the matrics of the business value. And the above CEO feels that it has never been done before.
I would be interested in your feedback.
Sam
This book is worth buying – but a bit dull in the beginning. A lot of the information in the book related to SAP (and the ASAP methodology). There are many pages with definitions of terms that can be used as a reference, but again many are related to SAP.
Overall, worth buying if your are an IT PM (or are thinjing of being one) and want to learn methods of tying in projects to business value.
I found this book to be very practical. It satisfies needs of all people involved with technology management – the students, the teachers, the CEOs, the managers, the writers, the analysts, and anybody else involved in the management of technology. The cover design in very appealing and the title is most appropriate for the contents. Dr. Bansal has done an excellent job of marrying the theory and practical aspects of technology management by utilizing his own personal experiences as a “binder.” He is right on the money about taking advantage of Program Management Offices (PMOs) to manage technological projects by properly overseeing the PMOs themselves. Speaking with my own experience, some units of Department of Defense have successfully managed complex weapon system programs involving very advance technologies by utilizing PMOs. However to do so, as Dr. Bansal says in his book, they had to conduct periodic Management Reviews of the PMOs. The net results was, again as Dr. Bansal points out in his book, the projects were completed on schedule and with in the allocated funding. Most of the literature on technology management usually is heavy on technical aspects and very shallow on human factors. It appears Dr. Bansal recognized that and has done an excellent job of giving adequate emphasis on human factor. His detailed description of human factor contributions goes a long way to fill the gap that has been left unfilled for a long time. Kudos, Dr. Bansal. This book is very suitable to become a text book for teaching management of technology in colleges, industry training programs, and hand-book for CEOs and technology managers.
Hari Gupta
Program Manager (Retd.)
Department of Defense
Dr. Sam Bansal’s book flows nicely in explaining complex topics such as product life cycle management, business case development, supply chain execution & management, strategic enterprise management, business balanced scorecards, and human factors.
Dr. Bansal’s years of business experience, in a variety of industries, describes how to align IT software investments and tie it to the performance of an enterprise. The book covers from very simple business issues to very complex enterprise management issues. This book is great for senior-level managers to junior managers, IT technical staff, and technical consultants. I can not wait to read his follow-on books in the future.
Great job, Dr. Bansal!
Suresh Mehta,
Senior SAP Consultant
Project Management is part art and part science. The science is captured well in the texts and guidebooks but few of them cover the art. Sam Bansal has developed his art of project management over four decades of experience of delivering successful IT implementation projects. He has distilled the art in this book succinctly covering the multiple aspects that a project manager needs to pay attention to. This book is valuable for those interested in delivering the promise of IT projects. Industry project managers need this knowledge to improve the notorious failure records of IT implementation projects.
- Sanjay Jain, Faculty member, Master of Science Program in Project Management at The George Washington University