'IT in Business: A Manager's Casebook' examines the impact of new IT initiatives from the business angle. The case material is derived from the year's best research projects from three leading UK Business Schools - Bath, Cranfield and Warwick. This incisive exploration of managing processes in...

Based on a case study approach, the authors examine the question: are there some aspects of a company's core business which can and should be outsourced? This question challenges traditional models of strategy which maintain that outsourcing of core activities is risky. Four circumstances are...

Too narrow a focus on overcoming organisational obstacles such as financial hurdle rates can often obstruct effective evaluation of investment in information technology (IT). To clear the hurdle rates with a minimum amount of organisational disturbance, evaluation procedures are often distorted....