Strategy-Technology Alignment: Deriving Business Value from ICT Projects
Essential reading for IT professionals looking to leverage their projects. While all projects may appear to be worth while, it is often challenging to maximize the benefit of IT projects. This book is an exemplarary guide for professionals, academics and students alike.
By Paul Griffiths
Chapter 1 - Theory-Building through Comparative Analysis
Chapter 2 - Market Power as a Driver for ICT Investment Decisions
Chapter 3 - Approach for Extending the Theory
Chapter 4 - Defining Post-Merger IS Integration Success in a Manufacturing Outfit (Finland)
Chapter 5 - Collective Use of a Hotel Management Core System (Australia)
Chapter 6 - Better Control at the Cost of Rigidity in Manufacturing (Ireland)
Chapter 7 - Consequences of Failing to Align Key Stakeholders in an ERP Implementation (UK,
Manufacturing)
Chapter 8 - Supporting Healthy Growth in a Building Contractor (UK)
Chapter 9 - The importance of strategic alignment for CRM
Chapter 10 - Valuing Tacit Knowledge in Engineering Services (Netherlands)
Chapter 11 - Discussing the Cases vis-a-vis the Theory
Chapter 12 - Pursuing Value through Strategy-Technology Alignment
Chapter 13 - Reflections, Conclusions and Managerial Implications