Organizational Achievement and Failure in Information Technology...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 265 pages
• Published by: IGI Global December 1, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1878289837
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1878289834
• Book Dimensions: 9.7 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Description
With the success of the widely acclaimed first volume of this series (Success and Pitfalls of IT Management), comes the second volume, Organizational Achievement and Failure in Information Technology Management. This book is a collection of real-life cases that focus on both achievements attained with the successful utilization of information technology as well as failures suffered as a result of substandard use and management of IT resources in organizations. Cases deal with issues that affect a wide variety of organizations - large and small businesses, government organizations and educational institutions.

From the Author
During the past two decades, information technologies have provided many organizations new opportunities in managing their resources more effectively. Computer technologies combined with telecommunications technologies brought properties to many organizations during the decades of the 80s and 90s. These technologies also led to the development of many newer industries such as electronic commerce and knowledge management.

Despite technological advancements of the past several decades in information and telecommunications technologies, not all organizations have been successful in the overall utilization and management of these organizations. Some have been very effective in adaptation and management of various technologies in their perspective organization, and some have not been too successful and had to deal with many pitfalls of these technologies. Many lessons can be learned from both types of experiences by information technology managers to adopt the best practices of the success cases and to avoid the pitfalls of the others.

In order to provide a broad understanding of the success and pitfalls of information technology utilization in organizations, scholars and managers from all over the world were invited to share their experiences with their colleagues and peers. This publication is a compilation of 14 cases out of many cases submitted for inclusion in this collection. These cases report many success and failure stories in regard to different managerial and organizational issues of information technology utilization and management in organizations around the world.

I hope that the cases included in this publication will become instrumental in better understanding of issues and challenges of information technology utilization and management in modern organizations.