Bigger and bigger percentages of corporate budgets are being spent on IT investments. In this book, the author offers lessons from world class IT departments that have aligned IT with business strategy to improve the bottom line. Based on years of research and filled with illustrative examples from Fortune 500 companies, the book outlines five principles that successful IT and business executives need to monitor in order to ensure that the IT department contributes all it can to the company. This is an ideal resource for CEOs and CIOs.