World Class IT Excerpt

This book excerpt looks at eight principles of project and portfolio management. First up: Have good ideas.


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From John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | Apr 23, 2010

Want to use IT to your utmost advantage in your business? Peter High's "World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs" offers key principles (and critical subprinciples for IT-business leaders to follow in order to stay ahead of the pack.

In this excerpt from Chapter 4 (Principle 3: Manage Projects and Portfolios Effectively), High offers his "Eight Subprinciples of Project and Portfolio Management", the first beginning at the beginning: the generation of fresh, viable ideas.

This excerpt, provided by Meredith Stanton, is reprinted by permission of the publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , from World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs by Peter High. Copyright © 2009 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

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