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Stand Back and Deliver
This chapter is an excerpt from the book Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business
Agility, authored by Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, Todd Little and Kent McDonald,
published by Addison-Wesley Professional, June 2009, ISBN 0321572882 Copyright 2009 Pearson
Education Inc.
If you have read any of CIO Niel Nickolaisen's columns, then Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility expands on some familiar ground. Among the models that he and his co-authors offer up to prioritize projects and then assign the right resources is his purpose alignment model of determining whether a project will create market differentiation for your company and thus merit top-notch talent and expenditure.
Other models in the book offer ways to assess levels of uncertainty and complexity, plus techniques for reducing those attributes and/or assigning the right resources to reduce risk and enable the desired outcome. Here, we offer you the first chapter.
Right-click to download this chapter from Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility. For more information, please visit the publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0321572882. Safari Books Online subscribers can access the book here: http://safari.informit.com/9780321617064.
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This was first published in July 2009
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