Managing Information Technology's Organizational Impact

In many organisations, Information Technology (IT) has been allowed to just happen, and its potential benefits for the organisation and its clients have not been realised. For these benefits to be gained, IT's impact must be appreciated in advance, and appropriate changes planned and implemented in organisational resources, structures and processes. This volume contains analyses of the ways in which IT can be managed to the organisation's advantage. The papers provide assessments of many of the key technological developments, their impacts to date, and the experiences gained by practising managers in dealing with them. They provide guidance to managers in detecting opportunities for strategic and competitive advantage through the application of IT. In addition, the papers show how mature IT-using organisations are reacting against blind, technology-driven change, and are now shaping the directions of development of computing and communications.Clarke, R. M. is the author of 'Managing Information Technology's Organizational Impact', published 1991 under ISBN 9780444889454 and ISBN 0444889450.