Information technology (IT) presents many challenges to managers. Constant change, e-business, massive amounts of information, global operations, and building new alliances and capabilities are just some the transformations being driven by the use of IT in business today. No modern manager can affor
Making IT Happen: Critical Issues in IT Management
โ Scribed by James D. McKeen, Heather A. Smith
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 386
- Series
- John Wiley Series in Information Systems
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
The book helped with my course study very well and the modules are segmented in an excellent manner for the reader to get a grip on past present and future direction of IT.
โฆ Table of Contents
TeamLiB......Page 1
Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 9
Foreword by Robert Zmud......Page 11
Series Preface......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Part A The Changing Role of IT......Page 21
1 A Look at IT in the Next Five Years......Page 23
2 Managing the Social Impacts of Technology......Page 37
3 Managing External Relationships......Page 52
4 Knowledge Management and IT......Page 65
5 Risk Management in IT: Problems and Potential......Page 80
6 Achieving Effective Change with IT......Page 95
Part B Leveraging Business with IT......Page 111
7 Aligning IT with the Business......Page 113
8 Mergers and IT: Making the Most of an Arranged Marriage......Page 125
9 Leveraging CRM with IT......Page 139
10 ERP Systems: What a Manager Needs to Know......Page 153
11 Estimating the Benefits of IT......Page 170
12 IT Project Prioritization......Page 189
Part C Managing Technology......Page 203
13 Managing the Technology Portfolio......Page 205
14 Emerging Technologies and the Surfer Syndrome......Page 220
15 IT-sourcing: Build, Buy, or Market......Page 235
16 IT Architecture for Enterprise Flexibility......Page 252
17 Enterprise Application Integration......Page 265
Part D People and Productivity......Page 285
18 Recruiting and Retaining the Best in IT......Page 287
19 Developing Effective IT Project-managers......Page 300
20 Developing Effective IT Leaders......Page 315
21 Best Practices in IT......Page 328
22 Managing the Virtual Workforce......Page 345
23 The IT Measurement Matrix......Page 357
Index......Page 379
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344 pages ; 24 cm