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 New Challenges in IT Management
  • Dr. Walter Rewar -- EMBA 704
  • College of Business –  Department of Information Systems
  • Sept. 3, 2004



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Megatrends
  • Global trends affecting organizations
  • Globalization
  • E-enablement and/or the internet economy
  • Need for knowledge management
  • Profound changes in the technology


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The Organizational Environment
  • External trends affecting organizations
  • International Markets
  • Decapitalization
  • Faster Business Cycles
  • Emergence of Business Ecosystems
  • Demands for Greater Transparency and Accountability


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The Organizational Environment
    • Enterprise specific forces affecting operations:
  •  Demand-pull
  •  Customer centricity
  •  Self-service
  •  Real-time work
  •  Team-based work
  •  Anytime/anyplace information work
  •  Outsourcing and strategic alliances
  •  Signs pointing to a demise of hierarchy


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The Organizational Environment
  • New Work environment
  • Leveraging knowledge globally
  • Organizing for complexity
  • Working electronically
  • Handling continuous and discontinuous change.


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The Technology Environment
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The Technology Environment
  • Software Trends
  • Software Development and improved methods to control costs
  • Purchased software as a replacement for in-house development
  • The emergence of decision support systems
  • Integration and ERP
  • The push towards Web Services and Portals


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The Technology Environment
  • Data Trends
  • From data files to database management systems
  • From transaction Processing to Decision Support and Data Warehousing
  • From data and metadata management to content management
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The Technology Environment
  • Communication Trends
  • Online connectivity, LAN, WAN, and ISP
  • Internet-centricity in data communications
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IT’s Mission
  • Improve performance of
  • people and systems
  • through the use of
  • information technology
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Services Delivery Model (1)
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Services Delivery Model (2)
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Case Example: Mead Corporation
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Case Example: Mead Corporation
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Case Example: Mead Corporation
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Case Example: Mead Corporation
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New Challenges in IT Management
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Case Discussions
  • IT Doesn’t Matter (Carr)
  • Does IT Matter? An HBR Debate (Stewart and others)
  • Six IT Decisions your IT People Shouldn’t Make (Ross & Weill)