Strategic Thinking for Information Technology [Paperback]

Bernard H. Boar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1996 | ISBN-10: 047115881X | ISBN-13: 978-0471158813 | Edition: 1

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

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From the Publisher

In today's marketplace, businesses who want to stay ahead of their competition use technology to lead the way. This book, authored by AT&T's business technology strategist Bernard Boar, shows IT departments how to apply strategic thinking to their business process to create and maintain aggressive, competitive, and productive computer systems. A special chapter reviews forty strategic ideas and shows IT managers how to directly apply them to their system.

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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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 047115881X
• ISBN-13: 978-0471158813
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,052,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Academic, lacks examples, April 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Strategic Thinking for Information Technology (Paperback)

This book is very academic, and clearly intended for MBA students. It tends to focus heavily on "IT fighting" theory, but lacks real world examples of how the author or others have put them to use. As a new IT Manager, I learned a lot from this book about business strategy in general. But I don't feel like it has given me any specific ideas to work on immediately.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strategic Thinking for Information Technology, June 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Strategic Thinking for Information Technology (Paperback)

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

2 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strategic Thinking for Information Technology, January 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Strategic Thinking for Information Technology (Paperback)

I just want to see logic of this boo