Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet
Spending on Information Technology in business organization has increased ten fold over the past few years. Consequently, the expenditure has often been marred by misuse of funds, resources and infrastructure. Top managements are often unaware of IT jargons and they allow expenditure on unnecessa...
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| description | Spending on Information Technology in business organization has increased ten fold
over the past few years. Consequently, the expenditure has often been marred by misuse
of funds, resources and infrastructure. Top managements are often unaware of IT jargons
and they allow expenditure on unnecessary or obsolete IT activities and projects. Problems
like improper human-IT interface resulting into employees becoming techno shy, improper
mformation flow have become quite common. Design of an Improper IT infrastructure can
lead to unnecessary bureaucratic steps thereby losing productivity at the same time, IT
department complams of unrealistic user requirements. expectation and scope-creep. It is
against this background that the present paper attempts to identify the problems generally
associated with IT spending within the organization and possible remedies by referring to
researches done by prominent scholars within the field. |
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| spelling | iium-66932011-11-21T17:21:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/ Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet Hassan, Arif Hassan, Sajid HD Industries. Land use. Labor Spending on Information Technology in business organization has increased ten fold over the past few years. Consequently, the expenditure has often been marred by misuse of funds, resources and infrastructure. Top managements are often unaware of IT jargons and they allow expenditure on unnecessary or obsolete IT activities and projects. Problems like improper human-IT interface resulting into employees becoming techno shy, improper mformation flow have become quite common. Design of an Improper IT infrastructure can lead to unnecessary bureaucratic steps thereby losing productivity at the same time, IT department complams of unrealistic user requirements. expectation and scope-creep. It is against this background that the present paper attempts to identify the problems generally associated with IT spending within the organization and possible remedies by referring to researches done by prominent scholars within the field. Association for Social Engineering, Research & Training (PATNA) 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/1/Doing_It_Right_-_Imperatives_of_Thinking_Strategically_about_IT_and_the_Internet.pdf Hassan, Arif and Hassan, Sajid (2009) Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet. The Social Engineer, 12 (12). pp. 4-12. |
| spellingShingle | HD Industries. Land use. Labor Hassan, Arif Hassan, Sajid Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet |
| title | Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet |
| title_full | Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet |
| title_fullStr | Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet |
| title_full_unstemmed | Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet |
| title_short | Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet |
| title_sort | doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about it and the internet |
| topic | HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/1/Doing_It_Right_-_Imperatives_of_Thinking_Strategically_about_IT_and_the_Internet.pdf |