- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Assessing Strategic Alignment Maturity
- II Communications
- 2 Integrating Business and IT Strategy
- 3 Recognizing the Functionality of the Future
- III Competency/Value Measurement
- 4 Assessing the Value of IT
- 5 Creating and Sustaining IT-Enabled Competitive Advantage
- 6 Competing in Mobile Business
- IV IT Governance
- 7 IT Governance
- 8 The IT Organization of the Future
- V Partnership
- 9 Chief Information Officers: Strategic Roles and Peer Influence
- VI Scope and Architecture
- 10 Intra Enterprise Integration
- 11 Toward the Future of Enterprise Integration
- 12 Learning and Earning From E-Commerce
- 13 Information, Strategy, and Attention
- 14 Information Technology Investments
- 15 The Influence of Wireless Networks on Information Technology Strategy
- 16 Competing Through Information Privacy
- VII Skills
- 17 Information Technology Human Resource Strategies
- 18 Strategic Alignment as a Process
- Index
Information Technology Investments
Information Technology Investments
Dealing Effectively With Strategic Uncertainty Through Scenario Analysis
- Chapter:
- 14 Information Technology Investments
- Source:
- Competing in the Information Age
- Author(s):
Eric K. Clemons
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
One of the reasons for investing in costly information systems projects is to exploit strategic opportunities. This chapter presents a mechanism for determining which contingencies to prepare for, and thus, which investments to make. It examines the decision to invest in systems for direct distribution and online sale to customers, and considers alternative scenarios for e-commerce.
Keywords: information systems projects, information technology investments, strategic opportunities
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Assessing Strategic Alignment Maturity
- II Communications
- 2 Integrating Business and IT Strategy
- 3 Recognizing the Functionality of the Future
- III Competency/Value Measurement
- 4 Assessing the Value of IT
- 5 Creating and Sustaining IT-Enabled Competitive Advantage
- 6 Competing in Mobile Business
- IV IT Governance
- 7 IT Governance
- 8 The IT Organization of the Future
- V Partnership
- 9 Chief Information Officers: Strategic Roles and Peer Influence
- VI Scope and Architecture
- 10 Intra Enterprise Integration
- 11 Toward the Future of Enterprise Integration
- 12 Learning and Earning From E-Commerce
- 13 Information, Strategy, and Attention
- 14 Information Technology Investments
- 15 The Influence of Wireless Networks on Information Technology Strategy
- 16 Competing Through Information Privacy
- VII Skills
- 17 Information Technology Human Resource Strategies
- 18 Strategic Alignment as a Process
- Index
