Product Description

Every degree programme in business information systems and technology (and the great majority of the fast-expanding conversion MSc programmes in IT for business) includes a course on the strategic issues surrounding information systems. This new edition of an established text meets the need for an accessible and practical text for students studying this subject for the first time.
It supports the increasingly wide skills profile expected of business and information systems graduates and postgraduates, by adopting a toolbox approach to techniques and their application, and overall it creates a base from which effective consideration can be given to more complex concepts.
The second edition has been completely updated in line with new developments in the field and is now presented in a more attractive user-friendly style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #257417 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

It's all there, but very, very, heavy going
There's no doubt this book has pretty much all you need to know about strategic information systems. It's required reading for our course but I do have sympathy for the foreign students. Ill constructed, long-winded sentences with inconsistent punctuation make it tough enough for native speakers: you have to read many sentences twice in order to get the sense out of them. It strikes me that these were lecture notes put together to make a book. High marks for content, low marks for presentation.

Excellent work
A brilliant work, spanning corporate Strategy through to the management of User Controlled Computing. As previous reviewer suggested, it is heavy going, but certainly worth the effort.

Clear, well written, almalgomates most major theorists
Wendy Robson covers a good range of material, always sighting several well know management strategists. A good overall view of several areas especially the roll of IS and IT in strategic planning.