Information technology and organizational transformation
Subtitle: solving the management puzzle
By: Suzanne Rivard ... [et al.].
Publisher: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780750662024; 9780080544212; 9781429497763
Subjects: Changement organisationnel; Cas, Études de; Organizational change; Entreprises; Corporate reorganizations; Organisatieverandering; Informatietechnologie; Technologie de l'information; Management; Information technology; Gestion; Structural Adjustment; Réorganisation; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Case studies
Description: This text is designed to help managers who have to deal with a complex environment, and who are often presented with "ready-made" solutions as to how to best organize their firm, to best use information technology. The book presents a simple and attractive framework within which managers can analyze their firm's environment and characteristics, and reflect on the most appropriate way - for them - to "put the puzzle together." It provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation. Courses examining the role of Information Technology in emerging organizational forms will find a well-grounded conceptual framework, illustrated with in-depth case studies. The book draws from the latest research in industrial organization, strategy, information technology, organizational theory, and leadership. It examines the individual puzzle pieces that have to be put together - strategy, structure, information technology, and leadership, and present the cases of three firms that were equally successful in putting these pieces together, while choosing pieces with dramatically different forms and adjusting them in radically different ways. The three in-depth cases included in the book are international:Oticon is a Danish firm with close to 1500 employees and is a world leader in the manufacture of hearing aids. Li & Fung is another, fist established in Canton and is an international trading company. Progressive Insurance which is the third largest insurance company in the US. * A clearly structured treatment of organizational issues, strategy, and people issues and how they are impacted by technology * Provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation * In-depth international cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-316) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Part I; title: The Puzzle Frame, The puzzle edges,; title: Part II; title: The Puzzle Pieces, The environmental assessment piece, The strategy piece, The organization structure piece, The information technology piece, The leadership piece; title: Part III; title: Putting the Puzzle Together, Progressive delivers the unexpected; title: Progressive Insurance, Oticon; title: The spaghetti organization, Managing the virtual value chain; title: Li & Fung,; title: Part IV; title: Lessons learned.