MASTERING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT MARCHAND D. DAVENPORT T. DICKSON T. Księgarnia

Davenport, Marchand

ISBN: 0273643525

No amount of technological wizardry will enable a company to succeed without first knowing how information makes a contribution to all aspects of its business. This includes information for strategy development, process improvement, customer responsiveness and product innovation. But how do you make data and technology useful to the business?

Written by a world class line-up of business school thinkers (from, among others, LBS, Harvard, MIT, Wharton) and business practitioners (including Andersen Consulting, IBM, Boston Consulting Group), Mastering Information Management includes a full range of cutting-edge ideas, tools and techniques to enable all managers to make sense of data and technology and to ensure the success of your organization in the future.

How can your company use information more effectively?

Information management plays a key role for managers today. Increasingly they are realising that the management of information and information technology is critical to their strategy execution and must be mastered.

Integrating strategy with design and implementation, Mastering Information Management provides you with the full range of cutting-edge ideas, tools and techniques to ensure the long- term success of your organization.

With contributions from a world class line-up of business school thinkers and practitioners, Mastering Information Management is your most important information source for creating and controlling the driver of competitive advantage, to take your company forward in the Information Age.

We have the technology; the challenge now is to manage the information.

Like the rest of this best-selling series, this book is based on the Financial Times newspaper series and brings together the latest thinking from world renowned experts on every subject area pertinent to today's business people.

The Authors

Donald A. Marchand is Professor of Information Management and Strategy at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland - one of the leading executive development institutes and business schools in Europe and globally.

Professor Marchand is currently Director for the IMD/Andersen Consulting Partnership Research Project entitled Navigating Business Success. This two-year study examines the perspectives of senior executives on the management of information, people, and information technology in achieving superior business performance. The study includes surveys of over 1,300 senior managers representing 103 international companies in 22 countries and 30 industries, as well as over 25 case studies.

Professor Marchand is an advisor to senior executives of leading service and manufacturing companies in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. He is the author/co-author of six books and over 140 articles, book chapters, cases, and reports.

Thomas H. Davenport is Director of the Andersen Consulting Institute for Strategic Change, a Professor in the Management Information Systems Department at the Boston University Graduate School of Management and is currently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Babson College. He is a widely published author and acclaimed speaker on the topics of information and knowledge management, re-engineering, enterprise systems, and the use of information technology in business. He has a PhD from Harvard University in organizational behavior and has taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Business. He has also directed research at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index.

Dr Davenport wrote the first article on re-engineering and the first book - Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology (Harvard Business School Press, 1993). His most recent work focuses on new approaches to information and knowledge management. He has recently published two well-received books on this topic, Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment (Oxford University Press, May 1997) and Working Knowledge: Managing What Your Organization Knows (Harvard Business School Press, November, 1997).

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