Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: Solving the Management Puzzle - Brossura

Aubert, Benoit; Patry, Michel; Smith, Heather; Pare, Guy; Rivard, Suzanne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0750662026 ISBN 13: 9780750662024

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2004

Riassunto

This text is designed to help managers who have to deal with a complex environment, and who are often presented with "ready-made" solutions as to how to best organize their firm, to best use information technology.

The book presents a simple and attractive framework within which managers can analyze their firm's environment and characteristics, and reflect on the most appropriate way - for them - to "put the puzzle together." It provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation. Courses examining the role of Information Technology in emerging organizational forms will find a well-grounded conceptual framework, illustrated with in-depth case studies.

The book draws from the latest research in industrial organization, strategy, information technology, organizational theory, and leadership. It examines the individual puzzle pieces that have to be put together - strategy, structure, information technology, and leadership, and present the cases of three firms that were equally successful in putting these pieces together, while choosing pieces with dramatically different forms and adjusting them in radically different ways.The three in-depth cases included in the book are international:Oticon is a Danish firm with close to 1500 employees and is a world leader in the manufacture of hearing aids. Li & Fung is another, fist established in Canton and is an international trading company.Progressive Insurance which is the third largest insurance company in the US.

* A clearly structured treatment of organizational issues, strategy, and people issues and how they are impacted by technology
* Provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation
* In-depth international cases

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Recensione

' Very accessible and an easy read for executives, while providing a theoretical base for students.'
Professor Bob Galliers, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Bentley College, USA

L'autore

Suzanne Rivard is Professor of Information Technology and holds the Chair of Strategic Management of Information Technology at HEC Montréal. Her work has been published in such journals as Communications of the ACM, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Data Base, Information and Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, and MIS Quarterly, and others. Currently she is an associate editor on the board of Information Systems Research, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Revue Gestion.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0750662026
• ISBN 13: 9780750662024
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336