tailieunhanh - Tài liệu Strategic Information Management Third Edition Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems by ROBERT D GALLIERS and Dorothy E Leidner_14

Trong Place là của phụ nữ trong phòng lớn các tác giả đặt trường hợp kinh doanh cho phụ nữ nhiều hơn trên bảng công ty. Trong cuốn sách tiếp theo, họ giải thích làm thế nào để đạt được nó. Ở đây, tác giả bàn về vai trò phụ nữ giám đốc có thể chơi trong việc cải cách hệ thống quản trị doanh nghiệp tài chính gần đây, cuộc khủng hoảng trong lãnh đạo, quản trị và nền kinh tế. | 20 Information Technology and Organizational Performance Beyond the IT productivity paradox L. P. Willcocks and S. Lester Despite the massive investments in Information Technology in the developed economies the IT impact on productivity and business performance continues to be questioned. This chapter critically reviews this IT productivity paradox debate and finds that an important part but by no means all of the uncertainty about the IT payoff relates to weaknesses in measurement and evaluation practice. Based on extensive research by the authors and others an integrated systems lifecycle approach is put forward as a long term way of improving evaluation practice in work organizations. The approach shows how to link business and IT IS strategies with prioritizing investments in IT and by setting up a set of interlinking measures how IT costs and benefits may be evaluated and managed across the systems lifecycle including consideration of potential uses of the external IT services market. An emphasis on a cultural change in evaluation from control through numbers to a focus on quality improvement offers one of the better routes out of the productivity paradox. Improved evaluation practice serves to demystify the paradox but also links with and helps to stimulate improved planning for management and use of IT thus also reducing the paradox in practical terms - through the creation of greater business value. Introduction The history of numerous failed and disappointing Information Technology IT investments in work organizations has been richly documented. Here IT Information Technology and Organizational Performance 589 refers to the convergence of computers telecommunications and electronics and the resulting technologies and techniques. The 1993 abandonment of a five year project like Taurus in the UK London financial markets in this case at a cost of 80 million to the Stock Exchange and possibly 400 million to City institutions provides only high profile .