IT-enabled strategic management [electronic resource] : increasing returns for the organization / Bruce Walters, Zaiyong Tang [editors].
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.Description: electronic texts (x, 328 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781591409106 (ebook)
- 1591409101 (ebook)
- 004.068/4 22
- HD30.2 .I853 2006e
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section I: Perspectives on IT-Enabled Strategic Management -- 1. The Interplay of Strategic Management and Information Technology -- 2. Toward a Strategic Perspective of Information Technology -- 3. IT Portfolio Management: Implementing and Maintaining IT Strategic Alignment -- 4. Relationship Between New Information Technologies and Flexible Organizational Forms --
Section II: Processes and Capabilities -- 5. IT-Enabled Strategy: Implications for Firm Performance? -- 6. Becoming a Learning Organization in the Software Industry: Is CMM the Silver Bullet? -- 7. ERP as an Integration Strategy: Issues, Challenges, Benefits, and Risks -- 8. Marketing Strategy: The Role of Information Technology-Enabled Capabilities --
Section III: Technology and Tools -- 9. Linking Businesses for Competitive Advantage: A Mobile Agent-Based Approach -- 10. Applying Directory Services to Enhance Identification, Authentication, and Authorization for B2B Applications -- 11. Autonomous Environmental Scanning on the World Wide Web -- 12. IT Outsourcing: Impacts and Challenges -- 13. IT-Enabled Integration of Business Relationships in the Steel Industry Context -- 14. Information and Communication Technology-Enabled Economic Growth and Convergence: Examples from the EU's Central and Southeastern European Members -- About the Authors -- Index.
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"This book makes an effort to explore the interaction of information technology and strategic management and aims to encourage joint research efforts among IT and strategy scholars for common solutions"--Provided by publisher.
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