Strategic IT-Management: Increase value, control performance, reduce costs

Helmut Schulte-Croonenberg Marcus Eul Dirk Buchta

ISBN 10: 3834918253 / ISBN 13: 9783834918253

Published by Westdeutscher Verlag GmbH, 2009

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pp. 224 3rd ed. 2010 edition.

Seller Inventory # 2658570842

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strategic IT-Management: Increase value, control performance, reduce costs
• Publisher: Westdeutscher Verlag GmbH
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3834918253
• ISBN 13: 9783834918253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Value of IT – New Perspectives for Utilizing IT What value does IT provide for the company? This has been the key question for IT man- ers and decision-makers at board level since technologization began. From the introduction of the first automated data processing systems to integrating value chains across enterprises, the potential of IT to generate benefit and, in the final analysis, generate value for companies has grown in leaps and bounds. In the 1970s, the value of an IT investment for automating individual operations consisted of faster and cheaper handling of paper-based activities, and therefore, for example, shorter time-to-invoice and collection cycles for faster inpayments. In the 1980s, the triumphal march of the PC and the first integrated applications not only reduced business process costs, but also accelerated and optimized entire business process chains. For example, in the mid- 1980s, systems such as SAP R/2 were already offering integrated processes for everything from procurement, inventory management and distribution to accounting and controlling. Processes ran more smoothly, interfaces were optimized or eliminated, in short: huge pot- tial for reducing business process spending was created. In the 1990s, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) then made it possible to integrate business processes across the value chain.

About the Author

Dr.-Ing. Dirk Buchta is Vice President and Partner of A.T. Kearney.
Dr. Marcus Eul is Vice President and Partner of A.T. Kearney.
Dr. Helmut Schulte-Croonenberg is Vice President and Partner of A.T. Kearney.