Strategic Thinking for Information Technology

How to create and maintain an aggressive, competitive IT system—a strategic weapon for the entire enterprise

In this jargon-free guide, IT strategist Bernard H. Boar surveys the terrain of the emerging information age and reveals how successful IT organizations have adapted their business strategies to this new environment—and triumphed! He defines strategy in terms of its goals, its relationship to actions, and its impact on organizational structure, and points out specific ways in which IT affects the overall strategic plan, including:

• 40 different strategic ideas and how they can be directly applied to information technology
• Four actions that the IT organization must take to enable the business to succeed in the information age
• Five ideas that encourage the breeding of new strategies
• The Marketspace—the cybermarketplace in which businesses will compete for share
• IT organizational design structures for the information age
• 50 flowcharts, templates, and tables that help explain and develop the techniques of strategic thinking

BERNARD H. BOAR is an information technology business strategist for NCR. His previous books include The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology, Practical Steps for Aligning Information Technology with Business Strategies, and Cost-Effective Strategies for Client/Server Systems, all available from Wiley.