Stanford Business Books Business Driven Information Technology: Answers to 100 Critical Questions for Every Manager

This books holds clearly written, concise answers to 100 questions that every manager needs to know to use information technology effectively. Each answer includes references to web and print resources for readers needing more detailed or the most current information. Over 60 authors contributed answers. The authors include CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and other senior business leaders, partners, and executives of major services firms such as Accenture, Deloitte & Touche LLP, EDS, J.D. Edwards, Oracle, and PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP, as well as faculty members of the Business School of the University of Colorado at Denver. Review " Business Driven Information Technology has the right formula to reveal what it takes to make information technology succeed in an organization. The innovative question-and-answer format provides business professionals and students access to a wide range of critical issues that are important in every enterprise, regardless of scale. The real-world experience of its contributing authors lends great credibility and value to the answers in the book and makes Business Driven Information Technology a highly relevant tool for managing technology in today's shifting market conditions." --Bob Dutkowsky, Chairman, President, & CEO, J.D. Edwards "All business programs should have a required introductory information technology course. All intro IT courses should require Business Driven Information Technology: Answers to 100 Critical Questions for Every Manager." --Terri Griffith, Professor of Management & Breetwor Fellow, Santa Clara University "This book offers a unique opportunity to see the critical factors of information systems success in numerous organizations from the combined perspectives of business leaders and researchers. From their responses to well chosen and incisive questions emerges a finely textured understanding of e-business, technology-enabled process design, resource allocation, system implementation, and the strategic aspects of information technology. The reader will benefit greatly from the well-presented wealth of experience." --Vladimir Zwass, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and MIS, Fairleigh Dickinson University ""Business Driven Information Technology" has the right formula to reveal what it takes to make information technology succeed in an organization. The innovative question-and-answer format provides business professionals and students access to a wide range of critical issues that are important in every enterprise, regardless of scale. The real-world experience of its contributing authors lends great credibility and value to the answers in the book and makes "Business Driven Information Technology" a highly relevant tool for managing technology in today's shifting market conditions." Bob Dutkowsky, Chairman, President, & CEO, J.D. Edwards" " "Business Driven Information Technology" has the right formula to reveal what it takes to make information technology succeed in an organization. The innovative question-and-answer format provides business professionals and students access to a wide range of critical issues that are important in every enterprise, regardless of scale. The real-world experience of its contributing authors lends great credibility and value to the answers in the book and makes "Business Driven Information Technology" a highly relevant tool for managing technology in today's shifting market conditions." -- Bob Dutkowsky, Chairman, President, & CEO, J.D. Edwards " Business Driven Information Technology has the right formula to reveal what it takes to make information technology succeed in an organization. The innovative question-and-answer format provides business professionals and students access to a wide range of critical issues that are important in every enterprise, regardless of scale. The real-world experience of its contributing authors lends great credibility and value to the answers in the book and makes Business Driven