The squandered computer
Subtitle: evaluating the business alignment of information technologies
By: Paul A. Strassmann.
Publisher: Information Economics Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Canaan, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Information technology -- Management.; Information technology -- Economic aspects.; Business -- Data processing -- Economic aspects.; Electronic data processing departments -- Contracting out.; Computers -- Economic aspects.
Description: Strassmann reveals the hidden costs versus value of information technology, including how to realize the alignment of IT and business plans, how spending interacts with revenue, overhead costs, and personnel related to IT, and the idea of workload without payoff. One strategy is outsourcing and the perspective that the best companies do not outsource massive amounts of data manipulation, but rather study good reasons for outsourcing and manage it effectively without decaying their information assets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-411) and index.