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Managers and executives know the importance of integrating business strategy and IT strategy for competitive advantage. Strategic Information Technology: Opportunities for Competitive Advantage provides managers and students alike with an understanding and appreciation for the development of business and information technology strategies to yield competitive advantage.
Annals of Cases on Information Technology provides a collection of case studies focusing on IT implementation in organizations. The cases included in Volume VI describe successful projects and offer advice on how to achieve these best practices. They also look at IT project failures and describe steps to avoid pitfalls in the path to successful IT utilization. The organizations described in this book represent small businesses, educational institutions, public and private corporations and describe may aspects of IT implementation including, e-commerce endeavors, intelligent technologies, enterprise resource planning and many other facets of emerging IT utilization.
In all enterprises around the world, the issues, opportunities and challenges of aligning IT more closely with the organization and effectively governing an organizations IT investments, resources, major initiatives and superior uninterrupted service is becoming a major concern of the Board and executive management. An integrated and comprehensive approach to the alignment, planning, execution and governance of IT and its resources has become critical to more effectively align, integrate, invest, measure, deploy, service and sustain the strategic and tactical direction and value proposition of IT in support of organizations. Much has been written and documented about the individual components of IT Governance such as strategic planning, demand management, program and project management, IT service management, strategic sourcing and outsourcing, performance management, metrics, compliance and others. Much less has been written about a comprehensive and integrated approach
Analyzes key critical HR variables and defines previously undiscovered issues in the HR field.
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"This book presents a wide range of the most current issues related to the planning, design, maintenance, and management of telecommunications and networking technologies and applications in organizations"--Provided by publisher.
"This book provides practitioners, educators, and students with examples of the successes and failures in the implementation of strategic information systems in organizations"--Provided by publisher.
"This book discusses increasing the participation of women in science, engineering and technology professions, educating the stakeholders - citizens, scholars, educators, managers and policy makers - how to be part of the solution"--Provided by publisher.
"The speed with which companies are bringing new software products to market is having a serious impact on information technology use in organizations. As vendors release new software products, customers are faced with the prospect of upgrading to the new software. If not managed properly, the upgrade might cost inordinate amounts of money and/or curtail employee productivity. To aid IT managers, this book provides strategies for managing issues associated with the implementation of software upgrades. In addition, the book presents selected research papers which provide indepth treatment of the most critical aspects of software upgrade management"--Provided by publisher.
"This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the latest developments in the EIS revolution. including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption, the integration of enterprise systems, personalized ERP, and the Semantic Web, and ideas and solutions for the future of the global enterprise"--Provided by publisher.