Overview

This book provides a practical insight to the techniques used in assessing the impact of information technology in your business, before you make a strategic purchase. This book is a guide to recent management research and best practice in industry today. It provides analyses, and measures profit from IT expenditure in companies today. It is divided into four parts: the first two chapters are an overview of the area; the second analyzes the strategic dimension, the third looks at the techniques of evaluation in information systems investment; and the final part looks at the processes and new techniques in the management of information systems investment.

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Author:   Leslie Willcocks
Publisher:   Cengage Learning EMEA
Imprint:   Cengage Learning EMEA
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780412415401

ISBN 10:   0412415402
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 January 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: of capital importance.- Introduction: of capital importance.- Overviews.- Why companies invest in information technology.- Evaluating the feasibility of information systems investments: recent UK evidence and new approaches.- The Strategic Dimension.- A portfolio approach to evaluating information systems investments and setting priorities.- Evaluating your computer investment strategy.- The real value of strategy formulation for information technology.- Assessing the value of strategic information technology investments.- Techniques.- Justifying IT investments.- Information economics: a practical approach to valuing information systems.- Beyond return on investment.- Risk and information systems: developing the analysis.- Process and Perspectives.- Responsibility for IT: a grey area of management.- Evaluation of information systems investments: towards multiple perspectives.

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