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The Squandered Computer: Evaluating the Business Alignment of Information Technologies

by Paul A. Strassmann

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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 show more information assets. show less

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Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Technology, Economics, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 004 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Computer science
LCC: HD30.2 .S7873 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Management. Industrial management

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Published: 1997
Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Technology, Economics, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 004
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