Managing organizations -- Management and control: organizational preparedness -- Understanding IT acquisitions preparedness: organizational perspectives -- Understanding IT acquisitions: associated models -- Conceptualization of IT acquisition life cycle management model -- Development of IT...

"This book assists those interested in and responsible for the management of major change within organizations, and provides the theories and values that should be adhered to in order to achieve that change successfully and effectively"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- Step one: Increase urgency- getting people to say "let's do something" -- Step two: Build guiding teams- finding the right people to make change happen -- Step three: Get the vision right- seeing the future -- Step four: Communicate for buy-in- getting the message right and...