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How to create and maintain an aggressive, competitive IT systema strategic weapon for the entire enterprise
In this jargon-free guide, IT strategist Bernard H. Boar surveys the terrain of the emerging information age and reveals how successful IT organizations have adapted their business strategies to this new environmentand triumphed! He defines strategy in terms of its goals, its relationship to actions, and its impact on organizational structure, and points out specific ways in which IT affects the overall strategic plan, including:
- 40 different strategic ideas and how they can be directly applied to information technology
- Four actions that the IT organization must take to enable the business to succeed in the information age
- Five ideas that encourage the breeding of new strategies
- The Marketspacethe cybermarketplace in which businesses will compete for share
- IT organizational design structures for the information age
- 50 flowcharts, templates, and tables that help explain and develop the techniques of strategic thinking
