Strategic Thinking for Information Technology

By Bernard H. Boar

How to create and maintain an aggressive, competitive IT system--a strategic weapon for the entire enterprise 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047115881X
• ISBN13: 9780471158813
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Strategic Thinking for Information Technology

This book is full of great quotes and theory. It was extremely useful in developing a framework for an IS visioning session. Many of the examples and quotes were used to get the participants thinking. Well worth a read

Strategic Thinking for Information Technology

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