Aligning It and Business ─ The Executive's Guide to Enabling Strategic Objectives

Corporate board members and senior management are facing a global call to action to align information technology (IT) and business objectives. Increasing corporate accountability and providing effective oversight also requires these groups to provide higher levels of governance and direction over IT to ensure that the organization is receiving value, delivery, security, and compliance from IT investments. This book focuses on the key topics that every executive must understand to fulfill their due diligence and fiduciary responsibilities. This book also provides a common body of knowledge that facilitates effective collaboration with the business stakeholders by removing corporate silos.

Sanjiv Purba is an award winning Executive with 25+ years of progressive IT & Business Experience. He is delivery oriented, builds high-performance teams, & has successfully delivered large complex projects while achieving operational excellence. He has delivered solutions and held senior positions for such organizations as KPMG, Deloitte, IBM, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and IMAX. Sanjiv can communicate to all organizational levels (e.g. Board of Directors & the ‘C’ Suite). He has written 18+ books and hundreds of articles for such publications as the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. Sanjiv has served on both profit and not-for-profit Boards.

Susan Doniz has had an impressive career leading technology, digital and product strategy/execution across various global firms. She is widely recognized for her thought leadership and media voice across technology and CMO leaders, globally. A specialist in creating, transformation and implementation of strategies that delight consumers and simplify for all those involved in the value chain. She is currently a corporate board director of several publically listed and private companies. She has advised Fortune 500 companies as well as private equity and accelerators. Previously, she has held roles as the Global CIO, Digital and Product leader at the world’s largest loyalty and data analytics company, Aimia and prior to that Susan held a variety of leadership roles with Procter & Gamble, including CIO, and Shared Services Beauty & Grooming, a $19B business covering Supply Chain, R&D and Sales and led a cross functional program for the CEO to Digitize P&G from R&D concept through to the retail shelf.

Naveen Kumar is a recognized leader in business transformation and has helped organizations across the private and public sectors to enable innovation through technology. Using practical approaches, Naveen has successfully introduced new and emerging technology and ideas to address organizational needs. Naveen’s advisory portfolio includes Business and Technology Strategy, Governance, Service Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Outsourcing. A distinguished industry presence, he brings extensive business and technology knowledge and has held leadership positions at IBM, JP Morgan, Citigroup and KPMG. Naveen has received several awards, both internal and from clients, and has been quoted in Financial Post, National Post, by Don River, Inc., and others.