Information Systems Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach (Routledge Information Systems Textbooks)

✍ Scribed by Steve Clarke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive guide to the strategic management of information systems within business and public sector organizations integrates the two, often disparate, domains of strategic management and information systems.  Focusing on managing information systems within a broader organizational context, it covers key issues such as: * corporate strategy information systems strategy from both practical and theoretical perspectives contemporary information systems strategic issues the technical versus social debate in information systems strategy ways forward for the application of strategic thinking. With strong pedagogical features and lecturer aids, this useful guide will be a valuable resource for undergraduates in the fields of business, management and information systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 15
List of tables......Page 17
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 22
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS......Page 24
Information systems......Page 28
Lessons from corporate strategy......Page 48
Information systems strategy: the theoretical foundations......Page 66
KEY ISSUES IN THE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS......Page 88
Information systems strategy and system failure......Page 92
Strategic alignment......Page 112
Competitive advantage from information systems......Page 136
Structure, culture and change management in information systems......Page 154
INFORMATION SYSTEMS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE......Page 176
Planning and formulating information systems strategy......Page 180
The future of information systems strategic management: a technical or social process?......Page 194
Index......Page 214