Six years ago, we started on our fourth book: an advice book for CEOs, owners and other ‘Top Dogs’ – the people who have the buck-stops-here accountability for IT. The topic: how to run IT better.

CEOs Don’t Manage IT Well

Our thesis was that you the CEO have been cowed into believing that IT can’t run predictably well.

The purpose of the book was to lay out a set of simple practices that CEOs and business owners can use to reverse bad IT performance. These practices can change how you think about your business in a world that is increasingly network-accessible, data-driven.  

The bottom line: We as CEOs do a pretty bad job leading IT.

Our book never saw the light of day. The year was 2002 — just after the dot-com bubble and September 11. Even with our writing track record, it was the wrong time for a book that was part business, part technology. The prospective publishers couldn’t even decide on which shelf to put it.

So we put the writing aside and continued to refine the ideas. Now we’re bringing this material to you via this website. The need is huge and the value for most businesses is immense.

Our Promise to You the CEO

Here’s what we promise:

1. We’ll show you how to be a more effective manager – leveraging your strength as business leader, and helping you improve your skills at driving IT results.
2. We’ll give you practical tips that will save you thousands, perhaps millions of dollars.
3. We’ll reveal how to get more predictable performance from IT.

We organize the blog into three categories:

MANAGE – Getting the IT strategy and structure right

DECIDE – How to make better decisions about software, services, vendors

DELIVER – How to play your appropriate role as ‘top dog’ in getting things done

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