IT Financial Management: Best Practice: An Introduction

• Operations: Finance departments rely heavily on IT managers being able to identify, track and measure costs – sometimes at a very granular level.
• Project Delivery: large technical project deliveries means that costs can be correspondingly complex to account for.
• Business Modelling: pricing models rely heavily on IT managers skills and accuracy. Where one service supports many commercial offerings a strong model is needed to apportion costs appropriately.
• Investment and business cases: a sound understanding of the financial contribution the IT assets make to the overall organisation is critical to gain support for ongoing investment.

This title covers the main financial concepts that managers need to be familiar with in order for IT to take its proper senior place as a contributor to the organisation. It assumes a basic level of financial understanding and builds on the techniques required almost daily. Therefore it is overwhelmingly practical and based on real-world scenarios.

Not only are the techniques in the book fully described, the following are also covered in detail:

• Roles.
• Implementation.
• Daily management.
• Tooling.

Key Features and Benefits:

• An overview of the financial skills IT managers must have in order for IT to effectively contribute to the organisation. Providing IT managers with key information on these skills.
• Helps IT managers to measure the effectiveness of IT's contribution toward the organisation's goals, helping to ensure that IT is an equal contributor to the organisation.
• Written in a plain-English style, making the book both easy to understand and use.
• The advice and guidance in the book is in line with ITILv2, ITILv3 and ISO20000, making it a truly best practice title.

Author: Maxime Sottini
Publisher: Van Haren Publishing
ISBN: 9789087535018
Format: Softcover
Published Date: March 2009
Availability: In Stock

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