IT Strategy
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: Riding the Tiger and Turn Around! A brief guide to starting, growing and turning around your software or Internet company, an ebook available at no cost on this site.

Key beliefs:
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.

2. It's easy to automate. But what's important is improvement.

3. The perfect system never gets built. Build it fast. Build it small. Fix and improve it frequently.

4. You need to understand the business problem and the technology to get value out of technology.

Consulting services provided by Eclicktick include:
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.

2. Project management of IT projects.

3. Strategic IT planning services, in particular linking the business benefits of projects to project portfolio selection.

4. Using technology to improve the performance of your business.


Recommended Reading on the Eclicktick Site
Free white papers:
Improving IT Performance (November 2003)

Selecting the right information management project (2003)

Thinking strategically about outsourcing with the Value Profit Chain framework.(2002)

Davidson's Law of Outsourcing

Book: Davidson, Gellman and Chung, Riding the Tiger, HarperCollins Canada 1997 or second edition, JIST Publications, 1999. See reviews.

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Alacrity Results Management brochure