Strategic Thinking for Information Technology: How to Build the IT Organization for the Information Age
Language: English
Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1996
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Information Technology (IT) departments are under enormous pressure from corporate management to invest in technology that will make their company more competitive, profitable, and productive. This text shows IT departments how to apply strategic thinking to their systems to create and maintain aggressive and competitive computer systems. It discusses (without IT and business jargon) 40 different strategic ideas and how they can be directly applied to information technology. The book should be of interest to IT Managers of all levels, CIOs, senior business managers and systems planners.
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- Title
- Strategic Thinking for Information Technology: How to Build the IT Organization for the Information Age
- Author
- Bernard H Boar
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 047115881X
- ISBN 13
- 9780471158813
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
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