Executive Accountability offers a simple set of powerful tools that will help you identify market opportunities, plan and develop products and services for your customers. It walks you through the process of identifying a market need, creating a concept to fill that need, building a model and finally, refining your business to produce market value for your customers and your company. Whether you are a first-time business owner looking to grow your business or an executive in a large organization, this is the book for you.

Nancy Weavers, Chief Executive Officer, Left Coast Instruments, Inc., USA

If you are a CEO of a corporation or own a business, buy Executive Accountability for yourself and your direct reports. Use the concise guidelines and tools to shift technology planning and implementation into generating valuable assets...Darlene's insights and approach are highly impactful and reflect a new breed of thinking that enables you to perceive, build, and preserve value as effectively as larger enterprises with greater resources. Plan strategically, operate efficiently, and fund properly in technology and beyond.

Michael Spears, Managing Partner, Bridgemark Group, LLC and CEO, FigureSoft, LLC, USA

The discussions of the real-world cases are reassuring to managers in that they illustrate unexpected things sometimes occur but with good planning and open communication, obstacles can be overcome and projects can be successful in the long run. The Seeing Solutions Map© is an excellent tool for aligning the organization's vision with information technology. It's concise, yet comprehensive.

Donna M. Schaeffer, Professor of Information Technology, Marymount University, USA