Information technology is also having effects on structures. Because of the easier and speedier communications and the increasing sophistication of automatic decision making by computers, middle management is tending to disappear in many organisations. Organisations are becoming flatter and...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Enterprise Governance of IT, Alignment and Value -- Chapter 2 Enterprise Governance of IT -- Chapter 3 Business / IT Alignment -- Chapter 4 IT enabled Value -- Chapter 5 COBIT as a Framework for Enterprise Governance of IT -- Chapter 6 COBIT as a Framework...

Business Information Systems in a Networked, Smart and Open Environment.- Information Systems Implementation and Structural Adaptation in Government-Business Inter-Organization.- Management Control Systems in inter-organizational relationships for environmental sustainability and energy...