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Author:   Christopher Sauer ,  Philip W. Yetton
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780787903589

ISBN 10:   0787903582
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   14 May 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface. The Authors. 1. The Right Stuff: An Introduction to New Thinking About ITManagement. (Christopher Sauer, Phillp W. Yetton) Part One: The Traditional Solutions 2. False Prophecies, Successful Practice, and Future Directions inIT Management. (Phillp W. Yetton) 3. A Professional Balancing Act: Walking the Tightrope of StrategicAlignment. (Janice M. Burn) 4. The Pathology of Strategic Alignment. (Christopher Sauer, JaniceM. Burn) Part Two: Competencies of IT-Enabled Organizational Change. 5. IT-Enabled Organizational Change: New Developments of ITSpecialists. (M. Lynne Markus, Robert Benjamin) 6. At the Heart of Success: Organizationwide ManagementCompetencies. (V. Sambamurthy, Robert W. Zmund) Part Three: Process Change. 7. Against Obliteration: Reducing Risk in Business Process Change.(Robert D. Galliers) 8. The Real Event of Reengineering. (Jane Craig, Phillp W.Yetton) Part Four: New Interpretations. 9. The Paradoxes of Transformation. (Daniel Robey) 10. Joint Outcomes: The Coproduction of IT and OrganizationalChange. (Rod Coombs) 11. Improvising in the Shapeless Organization of the Future.(Claudio U. Ciborra) 12. The Paths Ahead. (Christopher Sauer, Phillp W. Yetton) Index.

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An important book for those executives looking to transition their organizations into the 21st Century...especially those users and providers of information technology services. The IT-based transformation is the wave of the next millennium. --Carl C. Williams, Vice President of Information Technology, Amoco Corporation <br> Fresh approaches to some of the most vexing issues facing organizations today....A powerful argument for a new view of the role of information technology within the business organization of the future. --Michael Vitale, Professor and Head, Dept. of Information Systems, University of Melbourne and former Vice President, Information Technology and Corporate Services, Prudential Insurance (1988-92) <br> [Steps to the Future] helps us approach the impAnding third wave of major social change since farming and the industrial revolution -- namely IT&T. Not only are the difficulties and risks of failure analyzed, but ideas for new methods of organizational app

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CHRISTOPHER SAUER and PHILIP W. YETTON are researchers and consultants affiliated with the Fujitsu Centre for Managing Information Technology in Organizations at the Australian Graduate School of Management. They live in Sydney, Australia.

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