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PETER A. HIGH is the President of Metis Strategy, a CIO-advisory firm that he founded in 2001. He has been an advisor to many Fortune 500 CIOs. Peter is also the author of World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs, which was named one of the top three IT books of 2009 by CIO Insight, and the number one book to read to “be smarter than your boss,” according to Baseline magazine.

He writes the Technovation column in Forbes, and moderates a popular podcast entitled “The Forum on World Class IT,” which is available on iTunes. He is a regular contributor to CIO Insight, and he has also written for The Wall Street Journal, CIO, CIO Digest, and Information Week, among other publications.

Peter has been the keynote speaker at a vast array of executive conferences and universities in the US, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Canada, China, India, and Australia.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, with degrees in economics and history.

Follow Peter on Twitter @WorldClassIT. Contact him at peter.high@metisstrategy.com.

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Praise for Implementing World Class IT

The CIO role has evolved into one of a true business leader. CIOs must be focused on the company s business strategy and find ways to deliver value, not just by cutting cost, but by driving the top-line.Implementing World Class IT Strategy provides insights into how today s CIOs must operate and behave through the experiences of those who are doing it.
BRUCE HOFFMEISTER, global chief information officer, Marriott International

Technology is transforming business and industries and those that capitalize will grow and those that do not will be left behind.Implementing World Class IT Strategy captures the many dimensions required for the contemporary CIO to be successful.
TIMOTHY J. THERIAULT, senior vice president, chief information, innovation and improvement officer, Walgreens

In Implementing World Class IT Strategy, Peter highlights the difficulty in being both operationally focused and strategically focused. As a CIO you absolutely need to keep things running smoothly, but you also need to make sure your organization is prepared to take advantage of changes changes in your industry, changes in your customer needs, and changes in technology to deliver your products and services. Peter s insights around striking the right balance are invaluable.
BILL KRIVOSHIK, senior vice president and chief information officer, Time Warner

All IT strategy boils down to answering one simple question: What do we need to be able to do tomorrow that we can t do today? If we can answer that question in clear, concrete business terms, then we can build the right IT strategy. In his discussions with many IT thought-leaders, Peter High has set out to help answer that and many other questions along the way.
STUART MCGUIGAN, chief information officer, Johnson & Johnson

Peter takes the industry s best thinkers and shares their patterns of success using IT to transform business.
KIMBERLY S. STEVENSON, corporate vice president and chief information officer, Intel Corporation

Peter High provides practical advice on how to embark on the journey from tactical CIO to strategic CIO, highlighting proven methods that he and many leading CIOs have used to become strategic advisors to their colleagues, ultimately driving tremendous value to their companies and customers.
GREG CARMICHAEL, president, chief operating officer, and former chief information officer, Fifth Third Bancorp

Peter does an exceptional job of cutting through the myriad aspects of our changing technology landscape, distilling the salient lessons for senior IT and business executives, and providing a superb framework for strategic decision making.
JIM WHITEHURST, president and chief executive officer, Red Hat

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With rare insight, expert technology strategist Peter High emphasizes the acute need for IT strategy to be developed not in a vacuum, but in concert with the broader organizational strategy. This approach focuses the development of technology tools and strategies in a way that is comprehensive in nature and designed with the concept of value in mind. The role of CIO is no longer just to manage IT strategy instead, the successful executive will be firmly in tune with corporate strategy and a driver of a technology strategy that is woven into overall business objectives at the enterprise and business unit levels.

High makes use of case examples from leading companies to illustrate the various ways that IT strategy can be developed to do more than simply fall in line with business strategy; it can actually drive that strategy in a meaningful way. His ideas are designed to provide real, actionable steps for CIOs that both increase the executive s value to the organization and unite business and IT in a manner that produces highly successful outcomes.

While function, innovation, and design remain key elements to the development and management of IT infrastructure and operations, CIOs must now think beyond their primary purview and recognize the value their strategies and initiatives will create for the organization. With Implementing World Class IT Strategy, the roadmap to strategic IT excellence awaits.