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Solving the Management Puzzle
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By
Suzanne Rivard, Professor of Information Technology and holds the Chair of Strategic Management of Information Technology at HEC Montréal
Benoit Aubert, Associate Professor, Information Technology, HEC Montreal, Canada
Michel Patry, Professor and Associate Director, Academic Affairs and Strategic Planning, HEC Montreal, Canada
Guy Paré, Professor, Information Technology, HEC Montreal, Canada
Heather Smith, School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Description
This text is designed to help managers who have to deal with a complex environment, and who are often presented with "ready-made" solutions
as to how to best organize their firm, to best use information technology.
The book presents a simple and attractive framework within
which managers can analyze their firm's environment and characteristics, and reflect on the most appropriate way - for them - to "put
the puzzle together." It provides the manager and student with an integrated conceptual but pragmatic framework to analyze their situation.
Courses examining the role of Information Technology in emerging organizational forms will find a well-grounded conceptual framework,
illustrated with in-depth case studies.
The book draws from the latest research in industrial organization, strategy, information technology,
organizational theory, and leadership. It examines the individual puzzle pieces that have to be put together - strategy, structure, information
technology, and leadership, and present the cases of three firms that were equally successful in putting these pieces together, while
choosing pieces with dramatically different forms and adjusting them in radically different ways.The three in-depth cases included in
the book are international:Oticon is a Danish firm with close to 1500 employees and is a world leader in the manufacture of hearing aids.
Li & Fung is another, fist established in Canton and is an international trading company.Progressive Insurance which is the third largest
insurance company in the US.
Audience
MBA, Msc, Executive courses on integrated Strategic Management of Information Technology. Courses on Ecommerce covering strategy and
management issues.
Managers of and consultants to small/ medium size firms
Contents
Part I - The Puzzle Frame, The puzzle edges,
Part II - The Puzzle Pieces,The environmental assessment piece, The strategy piece, The organization
structure piece, The information technology piece, The leadership piece
Part III - Putting the Puzzle Together, Progressive delivers
the unexpected - Progressive Insurance, Oticon - The spaghetti organization, Managing the virtual value chain - Li & Fung,
Part IV -
Lessons learned
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: FEB-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6202-4
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6202-6
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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