Download or read book The Commonwealth Bank of Australia Strategizing from Outsourcing to the Cloud written by Leslie Willcocks and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teaching case examines the challenges of using Information Technology (IT) outsourcing, adopting new technologies, undertaking business transformation, and evolving the IT function's structure, governance arrangements and capabilities - all in a dynamic business context. The Commonwealth Bank Australia has over the last 20 years experienced similar IT management dilemmas as countless organizations across the globe. The case discusses a number of in IT management such as what form of outsourcing is suitable at different stages of an organization's development, and how can that outsourcing be managed to what are the key IT capabilities that must be retained within a large corporation.
Download or read book Dynamic Innovation in Outsourcing written by Leslie P. Willcocks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide for achieving innovation through outsourcing. Unpacking the various challenges faced by client firms and suppliers, the authors take the reader through the innovation lifecycle and devise a clear plan to achieve valuable results. Offering practical frameworks and tools to ensure informed decision-making at every stage, this book also includes collaborative structures and metrics to measure outcomes. Written by leading figures in the area of outsourcing, this book offers both the academic rigor and the hands-on experience based on dozens of cases that walk the reader from the very beginning of the outsourcing journey to the successful delivery of transformative innovations.
Download or read book Advanced Outsourcing Practice written by Leslie P. Willcocks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich database of over 2,200 outsourcing arrangements, studied across sectors and geographies, and over time, from inception, through contract signing, to outcomes. This book has unparalleled insight into the robust practices that have been proven effective time and again.
Download or read book The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring written by I. Oshri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad perspective on issues relating to the sourcing of systems and business processes in a national and global context, examining the client's and the vendor's involvement in sourcing relationships by putting the emphasis on the capabilities that each side should develop as a result of their interactions with each other.
Download or read book Experiencing MIS written by David Kroenke and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-World Lessons + Excellent Support Whatever you do in business, you will experience MIS. What kind of experience will you have with MIS? Will you understand how businesses use--and need--information systems to accomplish their goals and objectives, and develop their competitive strategy? By presenting real-world cases Experiencing MIS helps you to experience MIS right now at university, where you can exercise your enquiring mind and unlock the potential of information systems for business. With an approachable, easy-to-use and sometimes humorous attitude this text shows you how to become a better problem-solver and a valued business professional.
Download or read book The Outsourcing Enterprise written by L. Willcocks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence shows that organizations with both a CEO and a team involved in sourcing strategy and supplier configuration make more effective decisions. If the wrong supplier is chosen, performance can be negatively affected. Here the authors look at how companies can improve their outsourcing capabilities.
Download or read book Managing and Using Information Systems written by Keri E. Pearlson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the knowledge and insights necessary to contribute to the Information Systems decision-making process Managing & Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach delivers a solid knowledgebase of basic concepts to help MBA students and general business managers alike become informed, competent participants in Information Systems (IS) decisions. Now in its eighth edition, this fully up-to-date textbook explains the fundamental principles and practices required to use and manage information while illustrating how information systems can create or obstruct opportunities — and even propel digital transformations within a wide range of organizations. Drawing from their expertise in both academia and industry, the authors discuss the business and design processes relevant to IS while presenting a basic framework that connects business strategy, IS strategy, and organizational strategy. Step by step, readers are guided through each essential aspect of Information Systems, from fundamental information architecture and infrastructure to cyber security, Artificial Intelligence (AI), business analytics, project management, platform and IS governance, IS sourcing, and more. Detailed chapters contain mini-cases, full-length case studies, discussion topics, review questions, supplemental readings, and topic-specific managerial concerns that provide insights into real-world IS issues. Managing & Using Information Systems: A Strategic Approach, Eighth Edition, is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and MBA-level courses on IS concepts and managerial approaches to leveraging emerging information technologies.
Download or read book Global Sourcing of Digital Services Micro and Macro Perspectives written by Ilan Oshri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th international Global Sourcing Workshop 2017, held in La Thuile, Italy, in February 2017. The 10 contributions included were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The book offers a review of the key topics in sourcing of services, populated with practical frameworks that serve as a tool kit to students and managers. The range of topics covered in this book is wide and diverse, offering micro and macro perspectives on successful sourcing of services. Case studies from various organizations, industries and countries are used extensively throughout the book, giving it a unique position within the current literature offering.
Download or read book Digital Transformation in the Viral Age written by Abhishek Kathuria and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asset Recovery Handbook written by Jean-Pierre Brun and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is designed as a 'how-to' manual that guides practitioners as they grapple with the strategic, organizational, investigative, and legal challenges of recovering assets that have been stolen by corrupt leaders and hidden abroad.
Download or read book Cloud Computing written by Craig Mudge and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses cloud use by government, business and universities - both overseas and in Australia - and reveals there are valuable opportunities for Australia in cloud computing: for government, researchers and business. But the Australian Government needs to ensure that these opportunities are grasped and unnecessary barriers removed.
Download or read book Accounting Information Systems Australasian Edition written by Marshall Romney and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last – the Australasian edition of Romney and Steinbart’s respected AIS text! Accounting Information Systems first Australasian edition offers the most up-to-date, comprehensive and student-friendly coverage of Accounting Information Systems in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Accounting Information Systems has been extensively revised and updated to incorporate local laws, standards and business practices. The text has a new and flexible structure developed especially for Australasian AIS courses, while also retaining the features that make the US edition easy to use. nt concepts such as systems cycles, controls, auditing, fraud and cybercrime, ethics and the REA data model are brought to life by a wide variety of Australasian case studies and examples. With a learning and teaching resource package second to none, this is the perfect resource for one-semester undergraduate and graduate courses in Accounting Information Systems.
Download or read book IT Savvy written by Peter Weill and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed. These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies with IT-savvy managers are 20 percent more profitable than their competitors. In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. You'll discover how to: -Define your firm's operating model-how IT can help you do business -Revamp your IT funding model to support your operating model -Build a digitized platform of business processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model -Determine IT decision rights -Extract more business value from your IT assets Packed with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's performance to new heights.
Download or read book The New IT Outsourcing Landscape written by Leslie P. Willcocks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments in research and practice. It focuses on new practices in innovation, offshoring, onshoring, capabilities, project management and cloud services, offering a distinctive theory of outsourcing.
Download or read book Moving to the Cloud Corporation written by L. Willcocks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on an international survey of over 1,000 business and executives, this book provides a management perspective on cloud technology. It outlines the need to know information for strategic decisions on cloud technology including its capabilities, how it can be implemented securely and the way forward for the next ten years.
Download or read book The Growth Report written by Commission on Growth and Development and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of two years work by 19 experienced policymakers and two Nobel prize-winning economists, 'The Growth Report' is the most complete analysis to date of the ingredients which, if used in the right country-specific recipe, can deliver growth and help lift populations out of poverty.
Download or read book Cybersecurity for Elections written by Commonwealth Secretariat and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of computers and other technology introduces a range of risks to electoral integrity. Cybersecurity for Elections explains how cybersecurity issues can compromise traditional aspects of elections, explores how cybersecurity interacts with the broader electoral environment, and offers principles for managing cybersecurity risks.
