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: This is one of the best books about how to run an IT department, and it's so useful and straight-forward that I'd recommended it to any middle-tier-manager who is looking for a real world IT framework. However, I have some complaints about this second edition:
- The paper quality is... more info