Strategic Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems - Softcover

Galliers, Robert; Baker, B.S.H.

9780750639750: Strategic Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075063975X ISBN 13: 9780750639750

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1998

Building on the success of the first edition of Strategic Information Management, this second edition draws on a wide range of contemporary articles by leading experts in North America and Europe, such as: Bob Benjamin, Michael Earl, Blake Ives, Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Lynne Markus, Edgar Schein and Leslie Willcocks. Each deals with aspects of the most important and pressing Information Systems Management themes.

The collection is given added coherence with the introduction of an easily understood framework of Information Systems Strategy and Planning within the wider organizational and business context. In addition, lessons are reinforced by the inclusion of discussion questions at the end of each chapter; these often refer to points raised elsewhere in the book as well.

Strategic Information Management is designed as a course text for MBA, Master's and final year undergraduate students, and provides a helpful launch pad for researchers and Doctoral students investigating these key issues. The book can be read from cover-to- cover, or as a ready reference for those whose need to dip into aspects of the subject.

About the editors
Bob Galliers is internationally renowned for his leading edge work on IT and organizational change. Professor of Information Management at Warwick Business School, UK, where he was Dean for the period 1994- 1998, he is editor-in-chief of the JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS and, in 1999, President of the Association for Information Systems. He is a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, France and an Honorary Professor of the Institute for Advanced Management Studies in Brussels.
Dorothy Leidner is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at INSEAD. Her current research focuses on key issues associated with knowledge management systems and working in virtual teams. The latter research has gained international prominence through being highlighted in Harvard Business Review. She has published in such leading international journals as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly and Organization Science.
Bernadette Baker is a Business Analyst at Virgin Direct. Previously a Research Fellow in Business Innovation and Information Systems Strategies at Warwick Business School, she gained her Doctorate there as a result of pioneering work in the area of assessing Strategic Information Systems Planning success.
The Editors have thoroughly researched which articles would be most useful on Strategic Information Courses provided by other institutions as well as their
own
Professor Galliers is the recognized authority in the field of Information Management, and teaches at one of the top Management Schools in Britain

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Review:

'Well structured and up-to-date'
Dr A Panteli, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Reviews of first edition

'This is a book that seems destined for management bookshelves.' - Computing, June 1995
'Required reading for anyone responsible for substantial budgets.' - Long Range Planning, February 1996
'Strategic Information Management is an excellent MBA text..[it] is an excellent collation of the material that should be included in such courses to help protect credulous users from wasting yet more time and effort on inefficient, user-hostile and irrelevant IT systems promoted by the immature technophiliacs who are all too common to both suppliers and users.' - Books for MBAs, April 1996
'This review can only scratch the surface of this comprehensive, well-structured and presented book. For anyone with the least involvement in managing the handling of information at a strategic level in any organization it is essential reading.'

Synopsis:

This title focuses on strategic information management and its repercussions for business and management practice. The authors have made a survey of key information management issues amongst senior executives (both IT and non-IT) in order to reach the best possible selection of readings. The editors include a wide range of contemporary and classic articles from North America and the United Kingdom on key information systems management themes, including: IT developments in business; an historical review and management implications; key information systems management issues; international comparisons, historical trends, and global issues; information systems strategy - formulation, implementation, and business process redesign; building a flexible IT architecture; strategic information systems; organising and out-sourcing information systems services; bridging the cultural gap between information systems.

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