IT management and staff are called upon to perform the almost-impossible tasks of evaluating, purchasing, integrating, and maintaining complex IT systems, and directing these systems to meet the ever-changing goals of an organization.
The goals of an IT balanced scorecard include the alignment of IT plans with business objectives, the establishment of measures of IT effectiveness, the directing of employee efforts toward IT objectives, the improved performance of technology, and the achievement of balanced results across stakeholder groups.
The foundation of a successful information systems strategic plan is the recognition that business direction and requirements must drive the IS strategy and computing architecture.
Virtual Project Management: Software Solutions for Today and the Future explores the technical management issues involved in the revolutionary new way of building complex software intensive systems faster and cheaper by employing the power of distributed operations.
Learn how to:Select the best ERP software for your organizationChoose the most effective wrap around software to enhance the performance of an existing ERP systemAlign software selection with business goals and objectivesBudget for the software and the hidden costs involved in its implementationAt times a daring, ma
Existing ERP systems are being used to support an increasing amount of critical e-business initiatives, even though this is far from their original purpose.
The usefulness of strategic intelligence goes beyond military settings, as it applies toward improving the strategic decision making process of any organization.
Knowledge management (KM) is the identification and analysis of available and required knowledge, and the subsequent planning and control of actions, to develop "e;knowledge assets"e; that enable businesses to generate profits and improve their competitive positions.
Extending beyond the technical architecture to the very philosophy of how a business should operate, the Service Orientation approach establishes fluidity across boundaries to provide agility, transparency, and fundamental competitive advantage.
Based on an extensive research project done by the author in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and Austria from December 1999 to June 2001, Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems focuses on four main themes: Next Generation Information Technology The Likely Technologies
The Engineering Management discipline remains complex and multidisciplinary, and has progressed and broadened in scope significantly over the last 10-20 years.
Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies.
The legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society todayIncentives can be found everywhere-in schools, businesses, factories, and government-influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing.
The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world.
Logistics and supply chain management is at the heart of almost every organization globally, as such, developing a well-rounded understanding of these areas has never been more important.
Intellectual assets - including documents, designs, know-how, software, data, patents and trademarks - are critical to the delivery of innovative, and cost effective, products and services.
Intellectual assets - including documents, designs, know-how, software, data, patents and trademarks - are critical to the delivery of innovative, and cost effective, products and services.
Security Manual provides practical guidance on all aspects of security work and is a ready made source of information for all members of the security profession, including managers, supervisors and trainers.
Security Manual provides practical guidance on all aspects of security work and is a ready made source of information for all members of the security profession, including managers, supervisors and trainers.
This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature, which span from the conceptual, to the practice, to the translational.