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Amerireal corporation: information technology and organizational performance

This instructional case, based on an actual firm’s experience (name changed), is intended to challenge student thinking with regard to the extent to which information technology (IT) can demonstrably contribute to organizational performance and productivity and to which users of IT can relate their investment decisions to measurable outcomes. Relationships between an organization’s investment i...

Postmodern Management and Information Technology in the Modern Industrial Corporation

This paper examines the concept of organizational emergence with respect to postmodern business organizations. We conclude that although there may be postmodern business enterprises in the United States, by and large they subcontract, not abolish, their modern work place relations. Information technology (IT) has been at the core of this process. Sophisticated information technologies have perm...

Dow Corning Corporation: business processes and information technology

This case study, divided here into parts (A) and (B), describes one firm's experiences as it adopted a process perspective to managing its business, examined the implications for its information systems needs, decided to acquire SAP, an integrated, enterprise-wide software package, and embarked on the SAP implementation. Dow Corning Corporation (A): Business Processes and Information Technology...

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