Creating a Business-based IT Strategy

Introduction. Creating an IT strategy - Ann Brown; Current approaches to IT strategy. Why information strategies fail - David Norman; Role of strategy in maximizing IT benefits - David Axson; Making IT happen successfully - a consultant's view - John Swift; The destructive power of information systems - Paul Raimond; A strategic response to a competitive threat at Dairy Crest - John Freestone; Creating an IT strategy, barriers and pathways. Financial sector IT investment - money down the drain - Hackett and David Axson; The culture gap - Kit Grindley; Bridging the culture gap between IT and IS, a practitioners approach - Ian Perring; Strategy development and delivery: dealing with the IT evaluation question - Leslie Willcocks; Making provision for IT impacts - Veronica Symons; The management of change, guidelines for successful implementation of an information system - Frank Land; Top management and IT - Ann Brown; Organizing to create an IT strategy. Investigating and interpreting business strategy - Pat Griffiths; Creating and developing a practical IT strategy - Clive Holtham; IT you can rely on - Marco Kapp; IT strategy at Nationwide Anglia - Brian Davis; Future realities. IT strategies: issues and prescriptions - Chris Yapp and K Hugh Macdonald; Future alignment realities - K Hugh Macdonald; Formulating business strategy to exploit the new IT - David Kaye; Future information technology strategies - Henry Green; Reconfiguring organizations - David Norman.