Mastering Information Management - Softcover

Marchand, Donald; Davenport, Thomas H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273643525 ISBN 13: 9780273643524

Publisher: Financial Times Management, 2000

Synopsis

Provides a range of cutting-edge ideas, tools, and techniques to enable all managers to make sense of data and technology and to ensure the success of an organization. Themes include the smarter supply chain, knowledge management, electronic commerce, and strategic uses of information technology. Based on the Financial Times newspaper series. Marchand teaches information management and strategy at the International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland. Davenport teaches management information systems at the Boston University Graduate School of Management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

DONALD A MARCHAND is Professor of Information Management and Strategy at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland - one of the leading executive development institutes and business schools in Europe and globally.

Professor Marchand is currently Director for the IMD/Andersen Consulting Partnership Research Project entitled Navigating Business Success. This two-year study examines the perspectives of senior executives on the management of information, people, and information technology in achieving superior business performance. The study includes surveys of over 1300 senior managers, representing 103 international companies in 22 countries and 25 industries, as well as over 25 case studies.

rofessor Marchand is an advisor to senior executives of leading service and manufacturing companies in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

He is the author/co-author of six books and over 140 articles, book chapters, cases and reports. He is the editor of Competing With Information, the first volume of the IMD Executive Development Series published by John Wiley & Sons (2000). He is also the co-author of Information Orientation: The Link to Business Performance, a forthcoming book published by Oxford University Press (2000).

From July 1987 to June 1994, Professor Marchand was Dean and Professor of Information Management at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.

He received his PhD and MA at UCLA and his BA at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also served as Vice President of Worldwide Chapter and Alliance Development for the Society for Information Management - SIM International.

THOMAS H. DAVENPORT is Director of the Andersen Consulting Institute for Strategic Change, a Professor in the Management Information Systems Department at the Boston University Graduate School of Management and is currently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Babson College.

He is widely published author an acclaimed speaker on the topics of information and knowledge management, re-engineering, enterprise systems and the use of information technology in business. He has a PhD from Harvard University in organizational behavior and has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business. He has also directed research at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index.

Dr. Davenport wrote the first article on re-engineering and the first book, Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology (Harvard Business School Press, 1993). His most recent work focuses on new approaches to information and knowledge management. He has recently published two well-received books on this topic, Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment (Oxford University Press, may 1997) and Working Knowledge: Managing What Your Organization Knows (Harvard Business School Press, November 1997). His next book on enterprise systems, Mission Critical, is scheduled for publication by Harvard Business School Press in January 2000.

His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review and many other publications. Tom also writes a monthly column created expressly for him by CIO Magazine called "Think Tank". He is one of the founding editors of Knowledge, Inc, and has been a board member for a variety of organizations.

From the Back Cover

How can your company use information more effectively?

Information management plays a key role for managers today. Increasingly they are realising that the management of information and information technology is critical to their strategy execution and must be mastered.

Integrating strategy with design and implementation, Mastering Information Management provides you with the full range of cutting-edge ideas, tools and techniques to ensure the long-term success of your organization.

With contributions from a world class line-up of business school thinkers and practitioners, Mastering Information Management is your most important information source for creating and controlling the driver of competitive advantage, to take your company forward in the Information Age.

We have the technology; the challenge now is to manage the information.

Like the rest of this best-selling series, this book is based on the Financial Times newspaper series and brings together the latest thinking from world renowned experts on every subject area pertinent to business people today.

From the Inside Flap

Introduction

The Financial Times Mastering series is the product of a unique collaboration between the FT and some of the world's leading international business schools. Mastering Information Management, drawn from a weekly series that appeared in the newspaper, is the sixth book to emerge from this partnership. As with its predecessors, we believe it combines some of the important basic principles of managing in this area with fresh ideas for 21st century students and practitioners.

Why Mastering Information Management? Few topics are more pressing at present – or more relevant to a company's short-term profitability and long-term survival prospects – yet executives remain confused by much of the advice they receive and disappointed by the payback on many of their investments. One reason may be companies' growing obsession with technology and their tendency to neglect the actual information which is stored, accessed, retrieved and distributed by that technology, the quality of the information, and the needs of users.

Note that the title of this book is not Mastering IT – that would imply more concentration on what goes on inside the boxes on your desk and on how networks actually function. The purpose of Mastering Information Management, as clearly explained in the opening article, is to put the "I" squarely back in IT.

There are 11 modules: Improving Company Performance; Competing with Knowledge; Managing IT in the Business; The Smarter Supply Chain; New Organizational Forms; Knowledge Management; Electronic Commerce; The Human Factor; Strategic Uses of IT; Innovation and the Learning Organization; and Guru and Practitioner Perspectives.

Readers will find analysis of, and solutions to, a wide range of problems – everything from data-mining and building trust in cyberspace to collaborative product development and the role of chief knowledge officers.

There is a strong emphasis on the human dimension, notably on how people react to technology-led change; there are articles on virtual offices and networks, and there are case studies on the information challenges in traditional manufacturing companies and internet start-ups alike.

Brief introductions to each module outline the main themes, and the summaries accompanying each article are designed to help readers quickly identify particular areas of interest. Lists of further reading should be helpful for those who want to delve deeper or look up references.

As with other FT Mastering books there are individuals to thank. Appropriately e-mail greatly facilitated the planning and construction of this series, but as this book constantly stresses technology is merely the enabler. My co-editors Tom Davenport and Donald Marchand provided enormous support throughout while others (notably Ahmet Aykac, general director of Theseus International Management Institute) also contributed valuable insights and advice.

The real heroes are the professors, other business school faculty and management experts who generously gave of their time to write the 50 or so articles in this book. They came from the following academic institutions and businesses: Andersen Consulting; Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University; The Boston Consulting Group; Boston University School of Management; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Los Angeles; Claremont Graduate University; Cranfield School of Management; Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina; Gartner Group Pacific; Harvard Business School; IBM Institute for Knowledge Management; IMD; INSEAD; Intel; London Business School; Marseille Graduate School of Business; Melbourne Business School; University of Miami, Florida; University of Missouri; MIT Center for Co-ordination Science; MIT Sloan School of Management; Nationwide Building Society; Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University; Rotterdam School of Management; Sprint Business; Templeton College, Oxford University; University of Texas at Austin; Theseus International Management Institute; Ukerna; University of Toronto; Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Finally, if you enjoy this book you will be glad to know that there are more Mastering books on the way. The next topic in the series will be Mastering Strategy.

Tim Dickson

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times Management
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273643525
• ISBN 13: 9780273643524
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372