IT IN STRATEGIC APPROACH TO TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

An Analytical Approach to Strategic Technology Selection

Technology selection is a decision making area of major concern to today’s manager. Technologies can create or destroy profits and have the ability to create new industries and transform or destroy existing ones. The dynamics of global business have changed the shape of organisational strategies. Now the focus is on a network rather than a single unit. This change has also affected the technolo...

Strategic Cost-Cutting in Information Technology: toward a Framework for Enhancing the Business Value of IT

The increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (IT)and the high percentage of the IT investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. Thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment inIT. There are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...

A strategic approach to IT cost-cutting in Higher Education

A Systems Approach to Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Design for Utility Management Automation Systems

Almost all of electric utility companies are planning to improve their management automation system, in order to meet the changing requirements of new liberalized energy market and to benefit from the innovations in information and communication technology (ICT or IT). Architectural design of the utility management automation (UMA) systems for their IT-enabling requires proper selection of ...

Strategic Development, Technology Transfer, and Strategic Technology Assessment in Changing Environments

It is now evident that sustainability of an organisation is affected by its capability for the utilisation and development of new technologies. This potential, as the engine of strategic development of organisations, is based on the quality and quantity of the transfer of technology into organisations in both developed and developing countries. The fact that organisations in the first world are...