Enterprise and Global Management of Information Technology
Enterprise and Global Management of Information Technology
Learning Objectives
Identify each of the three components of information
technology management, and use examples
to illustrate how they might be implemented in a
business.
Explain how failures in IT management can be
reduced by the involvement of business managers
in IT planning and management.
Identify several cultural, political, and geoeconomic
challenges that confront managers in the
management of global information technologies.
Explain the effect on global business/IT strategy
of the trend toward a transnational business strategy
by international business organizations.
Identify several considerations that affect the
choice of IT applications, IT platforms, data access
policies, and systems development methods
by a global business enterprise.
Understand the fundamental concepts of outsourcing
and offshoring as well as the primary
reasons for selecting such an approach to IS/IT
management.
