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 | | The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology, 2nd Edition by Bernard H. Boar ISBN-10: 9780471376552 ISBN-10: 0-471-37655-8 ISBN-13: 9780471376552 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-37655-2 Hardcover 2000-11-10 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description A revision of the bestselling book that shows IT departments how to take on new challenges As technology becomes more mainstream and accessible, companies must develop new ways to use their IT resources in order to compete. In this extensive revision, IT expert Bernard Boar provides a methodology that shows readers how to use IT as a competitive business asset. He tackles the latest challenges facing IT departments over the next several years, including how to devise a complete strategy to make the department more effective and how to choose the best strategy framework for a company. Boar also shows how technologies like e-commerce, data warehousing, architectures, and Java can be used to make a business more competitive. | ||
Download Description As technology becomes more mainstream and more accessible, companies must adopt and develop new ways to use their IT resources in order to compete. IT expert Bernard Boar provides a methodology in his book that shows how to use IT as a competitive business asset. | ||
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A very good attempt to intewave IT startegy to Business In my 23 years of experience of working in IT, I would say that this is the first book on IT strategy that attempts to make IT a PART of startegic intent of the business. No doubt, the book is hard to read and comprehend, but the effort is worth it. I would have given it an higher rating but for the fact that practical examples is missing which would have made the book more complete. | ||
Wordy hogwash An inane pill to swallow. The book says little in its 341 pages. I'll never get that time back. | ||
A good toolkit for IT Strategic Planning This book present Strategic Planning as a combination of cartesian analysis and art. The author draw a lot on the principles found in classics in the area, namely the Art of War from Sun Tzu and The Prince from Machiavelli. I personally liked this book: it provides the basic toolkit to do the job. Strategic planning is clearly presented as a forward looking process dealing with mega-issues - not a cumbersome process that generate lots of documentations that nobody read. If you are looking for detailed checklists and documentation templates, this is not the rigth book for you. | ||
Too theoritical and far too convoluted This book uses convoluted methods to explain strategic planning. It is all theory without any examples of how to use the author's methods (probably because even he couldn't figure them out!). Avoid it like the plague, if you can. Unfortunately, it's required reading for a textbook for some IT strategic planning classes. | ||