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Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage

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Bill Rapp has an established track record of writing clearly and cogently for his readers. He is one of the most perceptive international economists in the business and writes in an accessible style that's highly appropriate for both professional executives and the general reader alike.

"Information Technology Strategies" is based on his extensive background research on successful strategies used by leading multinational corporations, a market he knows extremely well. This book would be optimal reading for American executives who may be struggling with strategic questions regarding the appropriate positioning of their companies in a highly volatile and extremely competitive global market, but it's also recommended for the general reader who wants to be well informed and up to date. Bound to please.

It's an excellent book. The author developed an outstanding strategic framework for using IT. This framework is well supported by case studies from Japan, USA and Europe. (Citi, Merck, Nippon Steel, Toyota, Ito-Yokado, Meiji Seimei and Nokia).

It's a MUST read for the managers and executives involved in understanding,designing and implementing IT projects.

The author is clearly expert on the topic, and has done a lot of useful research. I like and agree with his theory on levels of IT strategy adoption. However, the book is poorly organized, the author does not proceed in an orderly fashion, and you get the sense that each chapter is largely redundant to other material in the book. One can imagine a tidy and concise version of this same material, covered in about half the pages. This is worthwhile due to the cogent observations, but you must slog through some obtuse writing to glean the salient points.