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This volume is a sequel to Information Management: The Strategic
Dimension (OUP, 1988), a book which was well received by managers
and academics alike. The purpose of this book is to take an
informed, dispassionate and constructive look, based on research,
at the challenges of IT and to offer insight, analysis and guidance
on the ever changing IT environment, focusing in particular on
managerial and organizational issues. These include centralization
versus decentralization, relations between users and specialists,
managing the IS function, outsourcing versus internal capabilities,
project management and systems implementation, and an assessment of
Business Process Re-engineering at both the conceptual and
empirical level. The book provides an authoritative overview and
helpful diagnosis of current information management challenges by
some of the leading information systems researchers in Europe and
the USA. The volume will be essential reading for IT researchers,
management consultants and senior IT professionals.
This volume is a sequel to "Information Management: The Strategic
Dimension" (OUP 1988). In the last decade, the pervasiveness of
information technology (IT) has brought about far-reaching changes
in how many managers and specialists work and, indeed, in how we
conceptualize the organization. The correspondence between new
organizational terminology and the language of IT demonstrates this
- networked, virtual and knowledge-based organizations,
inter-organizational alliances, distributed organizations and
groupware all being examples. For some, IT represents a solution to
many organizational and operational problems (including the
advocates of Business Process Re-engineering) and the most likely
way to improve business performance and gain competitive advantage.
At the same time, for many managers and organizations the reality
is that the risks, costs, false trails and difficulties seem to
outweigh any immediate tangible advantage. The purpose of this book
is to take an informed, dispassionate and constructive look at the
challenges of IT and to offer insight, analysis and guidance on the
ever-changing IT environment, focusing in particular on managerial
and organizational issues.
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