Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage
The focus of this book is to educate the reader on the strategic principles fundamental to using information technology to gain market control. It provides case examples of how to use IT to enhance existing core competencies and strategies. The book is designed to help managers struggling with how to advantageously harness the new information revolution. It can also support executive and business education programs on managing technology when few such studies exist. While Internet and information technologies are currently hot topics many firms and executives are without the tools and know-how of how to actually use them to improve results. Some major firms have sophisticated strategies for using information technology to impact, control and even own their competitive environments. This book describes how major non-information technology companies are doing this and the strategic principles employed.
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Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage
The focus of this book is to educate the reader on the strategic principles fundamental to using information technology to gain market control. It provides case examples of how to use IT to enhance existing core competencies and strategies. The book is designed to help managers struggling with how to advantageously harness the new information revolution. It can also support executive and business education programs on managing technology when few such studies exist. While Internet and information technologies are currently hot topics many firms and executives are without the tools and know-how of how to actually use them to improve results. Some major firms have sophisticated strategies for using information technology to impact, control and even own their competitive environments. This book describes how major non-information technology companies are doing this and the strategic principles employed.
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Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage

Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage

by William V. Rapp
Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage

Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use IT to Gain an Advantage

by William V. Rapp

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The focus of this book is to educate the reader on the strategic principles fundamental to using information technology to gain market control. It provides case examples of how to use IT to enhance existing core competencies and strategies. The book is designed to help managers struggling with how to advantageously harness the new information revolution. It can also support executive and business education programs on managing technology when few such studies exist. While Internet and information technologies are currently hot topics many firms and executives are without the tools and know-how of how to actually use them to improve results. Some major firms have sophisticated strategies for using information technology to impact, control and even own their competitive environments. This book describes how major non-information technology companies are doing this and the strategic principles employed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190287399
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/01/2002
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

The New Jersey Institute of Technology

Table of Contents

Forewordv
Terminologyxv
Acronymsxvii
Introduction3
Part IA Strategic Framework for Using IT
1Basic Strategic Framework21
2Managing Information Technology30
3Advanced Strategy41
4Convergence, Competition, Evolution47
Part IICase Studies
5Pharmaceuticals: Takeda, Merck57
6Steel: Nucor, Tokyo Steel, Nippon Steel92
7Automobiles: Toyota128
8Retailing: Ito-Yokado, Seven-Eleven Japan163
9Life Insurance: Nationwide Financial Services, Meiji Seimei187
10International Retail Banking: Sanwa Bank, Citigroup214
11Wireless Telecommunications: Nokia247
Part IIIConclusions
12Gaining a Leading Edge or Leaving a Bleeding Tail275
AppendixSloan Industry Centers289
Bibliography291
Index295
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