Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet

Spending on Information Technology in business organization has increased ten fold over the past few years. Consequently, the expenditure has often been marred by misuse of funds, resources and infrastructure. Top managements are often unaware of IT jargons and they allow expenditure on unnecessa...

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Main Authors:	Hassan, Arif, Hassan, Sajid
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Association for Social Engineering, Research & Training (PATNA) 2009
Subjects:	HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/1/Doing_It_Right_-_Imperatives_of_Thinking_Strategically_about_IT_and_the_Internet.pdf

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spelling	iium-66932011-11-21T17:21:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/ Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet Hassan, Arif Hassan, Sajid HD Industries. Land use. Labor Spending on Information Technology in business organization has increased ten fold over the past few years. Consequently, the expenditure has often been marred by misuse of funds, resources and infrastructure. Top managements are often unaware of IT jargons and they allow expenditure on unnecessary or obsolete IT activities and projects. Problems like improper human-IT interface resulting into employees becoming techno shy, improper mformation flow have become quite common. Design of an Improper IT infrastructure can lead to unnecessary bureaucratic steps thereby losing productivity at the same time, IT department complams of unrealistic user requirements. expectation and scope-creep. It is against this background that the present paper attempts to identify the problems generally associated with IT spending within the organization and possible remedies by referring to researches done by prominent scholars within the field. Association for Social Engineering, Research & Training (PATNA) 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6693/1/Doing_It_Right_-_Imperatives_of_Thinking_Strategically_about_IT_and_the_Internet.pdf Hassan, Arif and Hassan, Sajid (2009) Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet. The Social Engineer, 12 (12). pp. 4-12.
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description	Spending on Information Technology in business organization has increased ten fold over the past few years. Consequently, the expenditure has often been marred by misuse of funds, resources and infrastructure. Top managements are often unaware of IT jargons and they allow expenditure on unnecessary or obsolete IT activities and projects. Problems like improper human-IT interface resulting into employees becoming techno shy, improper mformation flow have become quite common. Design of an Improper IT infrastructure can lead to unnecessary bureaucratic steps thereby losing productivity at the same time, IT department complams of unrealistic user requirements. expectation and scope-creep. It is against this background that the present paper attempts to identify the problems generally associated with IT spending within the organization and possible remedies by referring to researches done by prominent scholars within the field.
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title	Doing it right: imperatives of thinking strategically about IT and the Internet
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