Part OneCompetition and BusinessImpact
David Targett
In broad terms the chapters in this part ask the following questions. Have IS affected the competitive and business situation of the organization? If so, what has been the nature of the impact – how has competitiveness changed? – how has business been changed? Four of the chapters in this part are case studies of private sector companies, covering a wide range of industries – food retailing, glass manufacturing, housing management and newspaper retailing. A fifth chapter is a case study on the operations of the UK government's Department of Health. Standard theoretical concepts, for example Porter's Five Forces framework, are used to analyse the impact of IS. The final chapter looks at the ...
Get IT in Business: A Business Manager's Casebook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
