Value-driven IT management / Iain Aitken.

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Aitken, Iain

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Series: Computer weekly professional series2003Description: 1 online resource (xix, 308 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1417507802
9781417507801
0080474713
9780080474717
9780750659253
0750659254

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Computer weekly.

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Contents:

Front Cover; Value-Driven IT Management; Copyright Page; Contents; Computer Weekly Professional Series; Acknowledgements; Preface: the Four Noble Truths; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Defining goals; Chapter 3. Optimizing effectiveness; Chapter 4. Optimizing cost-efficiency; Chapter 5. Measuring success; Chapter 6. Conclusion; Appendix; Index.

Summary: Value-Driven IT Management explains how huge sums are wasted by companies (and governments) on poorly aligned, poorly justified and poorly managed IT projects based on 'wishful thinking' cost and benefit assumptions and that even 'successful' projects rarely seem to realise the benefits promised. The author contends that the root cause of the disappointment and disillusion often found in senior management with the value extracted from its IT investments is a complacent corporate culture that can actually foster uncommercial behaviours in both users and internal suppliers of IT solutions. The aut.

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Value-Driven IT Management explains how huge sums are wasted by companies (and governments) on poorly aligned, poorly justified and poorly managed IT projects based on 'wishful thinking' cost and benefit assumptions and that even 'successful' projects rarely seem to realise the benefits promised. The author contends that the root cause of the disappointment and disillusion often found in senior management with the value extracted from its IT investments is a complacent corporate culture that can actually foster uncommercial behaviours in both users and internal suppliers of IT solutions. The aut.

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