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Strategic Information Management

Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems
Buch | Hardcover
556 Seiten
2009 | 4th New edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-99646-4 (ISBN)
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Presents the many complex and inter-related issues associated with the management of information systems. This book provides a source of material reflecting thinking on the key issues facing executives in information systems management. It draws from a wide range of contemporary articles written by experts from North America, Asia and Europe.
Today there are few organizations that can afford to ignore information technology and few individuals who would prefer to be without it. As managerial tasks become more complex, so the nature of the required information systems changes from structured, routine support to ad hoc, unstructured, complex enquiries at the highest levels of management. As with the first three editions, this fourth edition of Strategic Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems presents the many complex and inter-related issues associated with the management of information systems. This book provides a rich source of material reflecting recent thinking on the key issues facing executives in information systems strategic management. It draws from a wide range of contemporary articles written by leading experts from North America, Asia, and Europe.


Designed as a course text for MBA, Master's level students, and senior undergraduate students taking courses in information management, it also provides a wealth of information and references for researchers. New to this edition are updated readings addressing current issues and the latest thinking in information management.

Robert D. Galliers is currently Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bentley University. Previous to his post at Bentley, he was Professor of Information Systems and Research Director in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Dean of Warwick Business School, both in the UK. Dorothy E. Leidner is the Randall W. and Sandra Ferguson Professor of Information Systems at Baylor University, USA. She has broad international experience, having previously served as Associate Professor at INSEAD and as visiting Professor at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico and at the University of Caen, France. Since 2005, she has been a regular visiting Professor at the University of Mannheim.

Part 1: Foundations 


 


1. Conceptual Developments in Information Systems Strategy- "Reflections on Information Systems Strategizing," R.D Galliers; from The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts, C Avgerou, C Ciborra & F Land 


 


2. Sustaining Competitive Advantage- "IT-Dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature," G Piccoli & B Ives 


 


3. The Evolving Information Systems Strategy- "Information Systems Management and Strategy Formulation: Applying and Extending the ‘Stages of Growth’ Concept," R D Galliers & A R Sutherland 


 


4. Approaches to Information Systems Planning- "Experiences in Information Systems Planning," M J Earl 


 


5. The Information Systems Planning Process- "Meeting the Challenges of Information Systems Planning," A L Lederer and V Sethi  


 


Part 2: Components of Information Systems Strategy 


 


6. Information Strategy- "Towards a Comprehensive Model of Information Strategy," M Mocker & R A Teubner; "Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, June 2006" 


 


7. Information Technology Strategy- "Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages," J Ross 


 


8. Information Management Strategy- "Principles and Models of Organizing the IT Function," R Agarwal & V Sambamurthy 


 


9. Evaluating the Outcomes of Information Systems Plans- "Managing Information Technology Evaluation - Techniques and Processes," L P Willcocks  


 


Part 3: Management Perspectives and Considerations 


 


10. The CIO Role- "Understanding an Organization’s View of the CIO: The Role of Assumptions About IT," M L Kaarst-Brown 


 


11. Organizational Culture- "Relating IT Strategy and Organizational Culture: An Empirical Study of Public Sector Units in India ," S Kanungo, S Sadavarti & Y Srinivas 


 


12. IT Governance-- "Don’t Just Lead, Govern: How Top-Performing Firms Govern IT," P Weill 


 


13. Strategies for Managing in Difficult Environments- "How CIOs Manage IT During Economic Decline: Surviving and Thriving Amid Uncertainty," D E Leidner, R Beatty & J Mackay 


 


14. Project Evaluation- "Project Retrospectives: Evaluating Success, Failure, and Everything in Between," R R Nelson 


 


15. IT and Organizational Performance- "Resource-Based View and Competitive Strategy: An Integrated Model of the Contribution of IT to Firm Performance," S Rivard, L Raymond & D Verreault 


 


Part 4: Some Current Challenges 


 


16. Knowledge Management- "Three Knowledge Management Strategies: Knowledge Hierarchies, Knowledge Markets, and Knowledge Communities," A Dennis & I Vessey


 


17. Privacy, Property and Ethics- "Conflicts Between Privacy and Property: The Discourse in Personal and Organizational Knowledge," A Dulipovici & R Baskerville 


 


18. Enterprise Systems- "The Challenges of Implementing ‘Vanilla’ Versions of Enterprise Systems," C Soh & S K Sia 


 


19. Exploration and Exploitation- "Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning and Knowledge Management Systems in Tandem: Fostering Efficiency and Innovation Complementarity," S Newell, J C Huang, R D Galliers & S L Pan 


 


20. ‘Best’ Practice- "The Creation of ‘Best Practice’ Software: Myth, Reality and Ethics," E L Wagner, S V Scott & R D Galliers 


 


21. Outsourcing- "Managing Outsourcing: The Lifecycle Imperative," S Cullen, P Seddon & L Willcocks 


 


22. Offshoring- "Twenty Practices for Offshore Sourcing," J.W Rottman & M C Lacity

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.6.2009
Zusatzinfo Reader sample A (Key Readings Crisis Management): RCL; 20 Line drawings, black and white; 71 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 1202 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
ISBN-10 0-415-99646-5 / 0415996465
ISBN-13 978-0-415-99646-4 / 9780415996464
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