Beating IT Risks

Beating IT Risks is the essential guide for managers at risk from information technology failures. It provides proven models and evaluation tools that will guide board members, senior management, IT leaders and business unit managers in their decision-making, monitoring and negotiation roles. This book will also be a valuable resource for those studying this topic on IT and Risk Management courses.

IT for many organizations represents risky endeavours, from the strategic risk of deciding on applications, to the project and implementation risk involved in making it happen. Beating IT Risks aims to assist all stakeholders in organizational information technology meet the significant challenges IT presents.

"Beating IT Risks is an extraordinary book that brings many diverse issues clearly before its readers, irrespective of their backgrounds. It is one of the most important, realistic and practical books on this subject ever written — particularly for IT managers ... I hope you will read it carefully and pay careful heed to its recommendations — which if diligently pursued can save us all a lot of grief."

Peter G. Neumann, Palo Alto, California, USA, Principal Scientist, SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory and Moderator of the ACM Risks Forum