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Steps to the Future
Christopher Sauer
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Description for Steps to the Future
Hardcover. This work offers a choice of ways to approach IT based transformation. Its theme is the effectiveness of incremental, emergent approaches that allow individuals and organizations to generate the competencies through which transformation can be achieved. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJQ; KJU; UY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 560.
IT solutions from the leading edge
Information technology promises much but, as many businesses arefinding, it often fails to deliver. Representing the new wave ofthinking about I.T., this thought-provoking collection assemblesleading researchers from four continents, including Dan Robey,Robert Zmud, Claudio Ciborra and Robert Benjamin. Writing with deepknowledge of both I.T. and business, they persuasively argue forthe integration of the core business unit and the I.T. function,advocate a new role for I.T. professionals, stress the importanceof managing outcomes rather than process, and provide practicalguidelines for turning new ideas into new management practices.
IT solutions from the leading edge
Information technology promises much but, as many businesses arefinding, it often fails to deliver. Representing the new wave ofthinking about I.T., this thought-provoking collection assemblesleading researchers from four continents, including Dan Robey,Robert Zmud, Claudio Ciborra and Robert Benjamin. Writing with deepknowledge of both I.T. and business, they persuasively argue forthe integration of the core business unit and the I.T. function,advocate a new role for I.T. professionals, stress the importanceof managing outcomes rather than process, and provide practicalguidelines for turning new ideas into new management practices.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787903589
SKU
V9780787903589
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99-50
About Christopher Sauer
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.
Reviews for Steps to the Future
"An important book for those executives looking to transition theirorganizations into the 21st Century...especially those users andproviders of information technology services. The IT-basedtransformation is the wave of the next millennium."
Carl C.Williams, Vice President of Information Technology, AmocoCorporation "Fresh approaches to some of the most vexing issues facingorganizations today....A powerful argument for a new view of therole of information technology within the business organization ofthe future."
Michael Vitale, Professor and Head, Dept. ofInformation Systems, University of Melbourne and former VicePresident, Information Technology and Corporate Services,Prudential Insurance (1988-92) "[Steps to the Future] helps us approach the impAnding third waveof major social change since farming and the industrial revolution
namely IT&T. Not only are the difficulties and risks offailure analyzed, but ideas for new methods of organizationalapproach and finding new success parameters are documented toensure that we move toward this change with enthusiasm and hope."
Steve Burdon, Managing Director, British Telecommunications, AsiaPacific "Executives who adopt the new ideas advanced in this book willunderstand why IT must be an integral part of their organizationand how to act decisively to capture maximum business value fromit."
Neville J. Roach, Managing Director, Fujitsu AustraliaLtd. Endorsement from Tim Besley to come. Ask Nathalie to have itemailed to her.
Tim Besley, Chairman, Commonwealth Bank ofAustralia
Carl C.Williams, Vice President of Information Technology, AmocoCorporation "Fresh approaches to some of the most vexing issues facingorganizations today....A powerful argument for a new view of therole of information technology within the business organization ofthe future."
Michael Vitale, Professor and Head, Dept. ofInformation Systems, University of Melbourne and former VicePresident, Information Technology and Corporate Services,Prudential Insurance (1988-92) "[Steps to the Future] helps us approach the impAnding third waveof major social change since farming and the industrial revolution
namely IT&T. Not only are the difficulties and risks offailure analyzed, but ideas for new methods of organizationalapproach and finding new success parameters are documented toensure that we move toward this change with enthusiasm and hope."
Steve Burdon, Managing Director, British Telecommunications, AsiaPacific "Executives who adopt the new ideas advanced in this book willunderstand why IT must be an integral part of their organizationand how to act decisively to capture maximum business value fromit."
Neville J. Roach, Managing Director, Fujitsu AustraliaLtd. Endorsement from Tim Besley to come. Ask Nathalie to have itemailed to her.
Tim Besley, Chairman, Commonwealth Bank ofAustralia