Development Effectiveness: Strategies for Is Organizational Transition
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Overview
Explains how companies can productively use development effectiveness, an offshoot of total quality management, to ease problems regarding changing technologies in the information services organization by providing tools for change while still creating high-performance IS organizations. Contains proven implementation steps for planning and managing IT transitional processes along with the instruments relevant to measure the IS organization's current position, readiness for and ability to change.
Synopsis
Explains how companies can productively use development effectiveness, an offshoot of total quality management, to ease problems regarding changing technologies in the information services organization by providing tools for change while still creating high-performance IS organizations. Contains proven implementation steps for planning and managing IT transitional processes along with the instruments relevant to measure the IS organization's current position, readiness for and ability to change.
Booknews
Demonstrates how IS managers can create a more productive environment by applying the principles of development effectiveness to information technology strategies. Details problems common to IS environments, highlights practices of organizations setting new standards for IS development performance, and shows how TQM and business process reengineering can be applied within IS. Offers methods to overcome resistance within the organization and justify the costs of the new IS environment. Includes b&w diagrams and illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)