IT Strategy

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="3a1fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Eclicktick Consulting</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eclicktick Consulting"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="site_index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Site Index"><U>Site Index</U></A>   |   <A HREF="whitepapers.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free White Papers"><U>Free White Papers</U></A>   |   <A HREF="services.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Business Development"><U>Business Development</U></A>   |   <A HREF="upgrade_your_strategy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Upgrade Your Strategy"><U>Upgrade Your Strategy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="mentoring.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CEO Executive Coaching"><U>CEO &  Executive Coaching</U></A>   |   <B>IT Strategy</B>   |   <A HREF="projectmanagement.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Project Management"><U>Project Management</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id113.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pricing Consulting"><U>Pricing Consulting</U></A>   |   <A HREF="davidsonbio.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alistair Davidson Biography"><U>Alistair Davidson Biography</U></A>   |   <A HREF="client_list.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Client List"><U>Client List</U></A>   |   <A HREF="public_speaking.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Speaking"><U>Public Speaking</U></A>   |   <A HREF="testimonials.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Testimonials"><U>Testimonials</U></A>   |   <A HREF="eclicktickcontactinfo.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Information "><U>Contact Information </U></A>   |   <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="3a2d2b03.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="385b6f30.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="243" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Latest white papers:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="improving_it_performance.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Improving IT Performance"><U>Improving IT Performance (November 2003)</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="decentralization__disease_and_terrorism__.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Decentralization, Disease and Terrorism."><U>"Decentralization, Disease and Terrorism"</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="selecting_the_right_im_project.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Selecting The Right IM Project"><U>"Selecting the right information management project"</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="reviews_of__riding_the_tiger_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews of Riding the Tiger"><U><I>Riding the Tiger</I></U></A><A HREF="reviews_of__riding_the_tiger_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews of Riding the Tiger"><U> reviews</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="reviews_of__riding_the_tiger_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews of Riding the Tiger"><U>best practices in IT and IT governance</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Free e-book</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf"><U>"Turn Around! A brief</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf"><U>guide  to starting</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf"><U>growing and turning</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf"><U>around your software or</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf"><U>Internet business."</U></A></div> <div> in pdf format</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.htm"><U>"Turn Around"</U></A></div> <div> in HTML format</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eclicktick Recommended Books"><U>Recommended Business and Technology Books</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>IT Strategy</I></div> <div> Alistair Davidson, founder of Alacrity Inc. has been the CEO and CTO of software firms for fifteen years. His experience is documented in two books: <A HREF="reviews_of__riding_the_tiger_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews of Riding the Tiger"><U>Riding the Tige</U></A>r and <A HREF="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eclicktick.com/turnaround.pdf"><U>Turn Around! A brief guide to starting, growing and turning around your software or Internet company</U></A>, an ebook available at no cost on this site.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Key beliefs:</B></div> <div> 1. There is an enormous difference between good technology developers and bad developers. The range can be 20X in performance. Most managers don't believe this and are disappointed as a result by their IT performance.</div> <bR> <div> 2. It's easy to automate. But what's important is improvement.</div> <bR> <div> 3. The perfect system never gets built. Build it fast. Build it small. Fix and improve it frequently.</div> <bR> <div> 4. You need to understand the business problem and the technology to get value out of technology.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Consulting services provided by Eclicktick include</B>:</div> <div> 1. Improving software development performance. Our past track record includes improving software development processes by 20X over three years and turning around failed product development processes.</div> <bR> <div> 2. Project management of IT projects.</div> <bR> <div> 3. Strategic IT planning services, in particular linking the business benefits of projects to project portfolio selection.</div> <bR> <div> 4. Using technology to improve the performance of your business.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Recommended Reading on the Eclicktick Site</B></div> <div> <B>Free white papers:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="improving_it_performance.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Improving IT Performance"><U>Improving IT Performance (November 2003)</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="selecting_the_right_im_project.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Selecting The Right IM Project"><U>Selecting the right information management project</U></A> (2003)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="outsourcingpaper.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OutsourcingPaper"><U>Thinking strategically about outsourcing with the Value Profit Chain framework.</U></A>(2002)</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="davidson_s_law_of_outsourcing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Davidsons Law of Outsourcing"><U>Davidson's Law of Outsourcing</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Book: Davidson, Gellman and Chung, <A HREF="reviews_of__riding_the_tiger_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews of Riding the Tiger"><U>Riding the Tiger</U></A>, HarperCollins Canada 1997 or second edition, JIST Publications, 1999. See <A HREF="reviews_of__riding_the_tiger_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews of Riding the Tiger"><U>reviews</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="books.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eclicktick Recommended Books"><U>Recommended books</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="decentralization__disease_and_terrorism__.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Decentralization, Disease and Terrorism."><U>Disease, Terrorism and Broadband</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Alacrity Results Management brochure</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>