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Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: Solving the Management Puzzle
This text is designed to help managers who have to deal with a complex environment, and who are often presented with "ready-made" solutions as to how to best organize their firm, to best use information technology.
The book presents a simple and attractive framework within which managers can analyze their firm's environment and characteristics, and reflect on the most appropriate way - for them - to "put the puzzle together." It provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation. Courses examining the role of Information Technology in emerging organizational forms will find a well-grounded conceptual framework, illustrated with in-depth case studies.
The book draws from the latest research in industrial organization, strategy, information technology, organizational theory, and leadership. It examines the individual puzzle pieces that have to be put together - strategy, structure, information technology, and leadership, and present the cases of three firms that were equally successful in putting these pieces together, while choosing pieces with dramatically different forms and adjusting them in radically different ways.The three in-depth cases included in the book are is a Danish firm with close to 1500 employees and is a world leader in the manufacture of hearing aids. Li & Fung is another, fist established in Canton and is an international trading company.Progressive Insurance which is the third largest insurance company in the US.
* A clearly structured treatment of organizational issues, strategy, and people issues and how they are impacted by technology
* Provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation
* In-depth international cases
The book presents a simple and attractive framework within which managers can analyze their firm's environment and characteristics, and reflect on the most appropriate way - for them - to "put the puzzle together." It provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation. Courses examining the role of Information Technology in emerging organizational forms will find a well-grounded conceptual framework, illustrated with in-depth case studies.
The book draws from the latest research in industrial organization, strategy, information technology, organizational theory, and leadership. It examines the individual puzzle pieces that have to be put together - strategy, structure, information technology, and leadership, and present the cases of three firms that were equally successful in putting these pieces together, while choosing pieces with dramatically different forms and adjusting them in radically different ways.The three in-depth cases included in the book are is a Danish firm with close to 1500 employees and is a world leader in the manufacture of hearing aids. Li & Fung is another, fist established in Canton and is an international trading company.Progressive Insurance which is the third largest insurance company in the US.
* A clearly structured treatment of organizational issues, strategy, and people issues and how they are impacted by technology
* Provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation
* In-depth international cases
336 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
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July 25, 2011
must read for anyone interested or part of a virtual team. this was one of the 1st books i read that shed much light on the power of IT to transform organizations and is a surprisingly easy text to read. several case studies are given and particularly recall the Li & Fung case study being quite impressive given their ability to virtualize the supply chain in the garment industry!
November 18, 2012
very well written..excellent in explaining the concepts
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