Why Invest in Strategic Communication? Because It Creates Value

Why IT Continues to Matter: Reflections on the Strategic Value of IT

In May 2003 an article by the former editor of the Harvard Business Review (HBR), Nicholas Carr, in HBR, suggested that IT was no longer a strategic concern for management and that investments in IT should, in future, be restricted to the routine. Carr’s thesis has been widely debated, not least in the context of IT value in general and its strategic value in particular. Notwithstanding flaws i...

Why Invest in Newborn Health ?

The survival of newborn babies depends on the care we provide. International agreements have affirmed the world’s commitment to improving newborn health, and recent global assessments have confirmed that doing so makes good social and economic sense. But newborn care often receives less-thanoptimum attention. Although child survival programs have helped reduce the death rate among children unde...

How IT Creates Business Value: A Process Theory Synthesis

Mixedempiricalresults about the valueof IT inves nts arean invitation to seekbetter theory. Recently, a number ofresearchers have proposed theoretical models that trace the path IT investment inputs take on the way to creating business value. Despite substantive differences, the theoretical models share some common elements n particular, all of them contain a cause-effect argument of the "neces...

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...

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