Strategic Information Management Challenges and strategies in managing information systems Third edition

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Contents

List of contributors

ix

Preface

xi

Introduction: The Emergence of Information

Technology as a Strategic Issue

1

1

Developments in the Application of Information Technology

in Business

3

Information technology in business: from data processing to

strategic information systems

E. K. Somogyi and R. D. Galliers

(with a Postscript by R. D. Galliers and B. S. H. Baker)