The New IT

How Technology Leaders Are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age

By: Jill Dyche

Narrated by: Caroline Miller

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Introducing a powerful new business model for today's IT

Blogger, speaker, software executive, and best-selling author Jill Dyche has been thinking about leadership a lot lately. Having consulted with business and IT executives with Fortune 500 companies for most of her career, she has heard a common refrain: “What should we do about shadow IT?” She's decided to address the answer head-on.

With the onslaught of cloud solutions, consumerization of technology, and increasingly tech-savvy business people, it's time for a manifesto for leaders who recognize - and are nervous about - the demands of the digital age. Whether you're an executive, department head, or IT manager, The New IT provides an action-ready blueprint for building and strengthening the role of IT in your company - and prescribing IT's future. Learn how to:

• Assess your current and future IT profile
• Align your IT organization with business priorities
• Map technology delivery plans according to business priorities
• Organize it according to your company's culture and strengths
• Redefine innovation and talent management practices
• Build a stronger and enduring role for IT as a business partner

By using field-tested techniques to align your IT department with your corporate objectives, you can leverage the power of technology across the entire company. The New IT provides a set of tactical and experienced-based frameworks to help you and your colleagues conceive a new road map. It also includes real-world case studies and best practices from successful, technology-enabled companies such as Toyota, Merck, Brooks Brothers, Union Bank, and many others. You'll hear from major industry pioneers, IT thought leaders, and other change agents who are leading the way in this new frontier. And you'll learn how to bring your business and IT together in a way that is truly transformative.

The new IT is more than computing power. It balances strategy and delivery. It's interactive and inclusive. It's as omnipresent as the smart phone and just as revolutionary. It equips you with the tools you need to succeed in reframing the IT conversation and propelling your business forward.

©2015 Jill Dyché (P)2015 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio

Not new IT, but how to communicate with IT

TL;DR: If you are a member of the C-suite, or a director-level employee AND you want to fix the communication rift between your team and IT (or vice versa) AND you have the power to influence this change, this book is for you.

If you are not a member of the groups mentioned above, you can still read this book of course, but in my opinion you will not learn anything new about a 'new IT'. The only definition of this 'new IT' is that previously IT only took ownership of devices used for work by the company, but because of the ever-growing marketplace of SaaS, departments outside of IT require more bandwidth to be able to properly integrate these services. The goal being that these new services will bring added value with 100% certainty.

However, that is not the case. It is unlikely that integrating a new service will provide a significant value-add 100% of the time. That is where this book seeks to help.

Instead of a 'new IT', there are new problems that a company faces as new services [that require integration] emerge. Seek to align goals with programs to achieve them, and everyone will be better off. If the result(s) achieved by IT (or any department, really), are not close enough to the expected result(s), ask IT (or that department) if the desired result was understood. If it was not, determine if the desired result changed over the duration of the program, then fix the miscommunication (if applicable) and try again. If it was [understood], determine if the problem being solved may be a symptom of a larger problem instead of the cause.

While this book taught me new strategies for communicating with senior leadership, it did not teach me anything about a 'new IT'. The title strikes me as intentionally misleading in the hopes to capture an audience (such as myself), that is curious about what this 'new IT' may be.

In conclusion, 'new IT' just means 'good old-fashioned IT, but with growing responsibilities that will require effective communication to achieve anything significant'. So just 'IT'.