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Strategic Management and Information Systems: An Integrated Approach

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This book/text is one of the most complete treatments of the total Information Systems environment from the strategic management perspective. It answers the question: What tools are available to IS/IT managers to evaluate, analyze, monitor, and manage Information Technology to achieve sustainable strategic advantage? An extensive use of tables and diagrams makes it a wonderful reference book. Also, the format is straigtforward - simple paperback, black & white with line drawings. This makes for a compact, but easy to navigate reference book. The current 1993 edition is somewhat dated and I hope a new edition is in the works. I am using this as a reference book for an accelerated Information Technology Management program I am in currently developing for Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH, USA.

This was a carefully considered and well balanced introduction the the subject of Strategic Management and the role that Information Systems can play in an organisations approach.

The concepts are brought up from basics and although an understanding of organisational behaviour, management theories and change management concepts are helpful they are not required to understand Robson's book.

She introduces the major players int the field well, and puts their work clearly and easily within the reach of beginners. An example of this is Porter's five forces of competition, Robsons cuts through his waffle to outline the theory clearly.

Although the examples used are primarily relevant to the UK the concepts are put so anyone could understand them.

The book is well laid out and uses diagrams and charts wherever possible.