Customer Review: Very good case analysis for the non IT professional. Very good examples, utilizing thoughtful cases to provide a solid understanding of the Information Technology infusion into the business world. Very good text for the IT professional to understand the full context of the IT world into the basic... more info
Customer Review: Just read this book as part of an IT Policy course. Although this edition does not come with the cases, we downloaded cases from Harvard Business School directly. The three authors are very well known, McFarlan having developed much of the theory in use in the field of IT policy management. The... more info
Customer Review: [This review applies to the 2003 updated version only] I have been searching, mostly in vain, for a text that will be useful in examining the strategic relationship of business and IT. There were some fine books written in the eighties and early nineties, but very little wisdom has been written... more info
Customer Review: Few people know that I was responsible for developing the original advanced information technology applications in pilot (artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language understanding, smart maps with a memory of operational history, etcetera) for the CIA, and served on both the Advanced... more info