Leading an IT-Savvy Firm: The Critical Role of Senior Management in Making IT a Strategic Asset

Being IT savvy places your company in a position to take advantage of future business opportunities. To maintain the upper hand, all senior managers must make it a constant priority to ensure their digitized platform is being exploited successfully. But how IT savvy is your firm? In this chapter, Weil and Ross first ask you to assess your firm's IT savvy. They then summarize key IT leadership roles within the organization and provide information on how to work with vendors that specialize in IT services and business processes and can help you become more IT savvy. This chapter was originally published as chapter 7 of "IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain."