Managing Very Large IT Projects in Businesses and Organizations

Managing Very Large IT Projects in Businesses and Organizations

Matthew Guah
Release Date: November, 2008|Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 358
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-546-7
ISBN13: 9781599045467|ISBN10: 159904546X|EISBN13: 9781599045481
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Description:

Successful management of very large IT projects is increasingly becoming vital to corporations worldwide. Driven mainly by the demands of global competition, rapid technological growth, and faster time to market, these projects often result in un-integrated systems, and are thus incapable of supporting coordination to meet organizational goals.

Managing Very Large IT Projects in Businesses and Organizations offers a unique perspective on the management and implementation of very large IT projects, discussing sub-project integration, risk management, IT project life cycle, leadership and team building, emerging technologies, corporate strategies, resource management, quality management, quality assurance, and other influencing factors of very large successful IT projects in organizations.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Business Process Management
  • Ergonomics of VLITPs
  • Human resource issues in VLITP
  • Implementation of VLITP
  • IT Governance
  • IT Security
  • Methodologies for implementing VLITPs
  • Outsourcing and escalation issues in VLITP
  • Project Management
  • SOA governance
  • Software development frameworks
  • Software development models
  • Very large IT projects
  • VLITP case studies
  • VLITP implementation problems
  • VLITP management framework
  • VLITP management process stages
Reviews & Statements

This book takes a cross-disciplinary and cross-functional approach towards very large IT projects implementation, enabling it to address the needs of the host organization.

– Matthew Guah, Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands

Guah explores strategies for managing organizational processes and resources involved in implementing very large IT projects, addressing software development models, control standards, personnel, security, ergonomics, and the service-oriented architecture.

– Book News Inc. (March 2009)
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Matthew Waritay Guah is Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam where he was nominated for “Teacher of the Year” for the 2009-10 academic year. He also serves as visiting professor at Innsbruck University (in Austria) and visiting scholar at University of Hawaii @ Manoa (in USA), Warwick Business School (in UK), Salford University (Manchester, UK) and Westminster University (in London). He co-chaired the Healthcare IT track at ICIS-2009 in Phoenix, Arizona. He was deemed to have demonstrated exemplary achievement and distinguished contributions to the business community and certificated to appear in the 2008-2009 edition of Madison Who’s Who of Professionals. His current research projects concentrate on organizational issues surrounding emerging technologies in the healthcare sector and financial accountability. Other research interests include neo-institutional theory, socio-economic impacts of IS on government services delivery, resistance to IS, organizational reform, IS infrastructure, strategic planning for IS—with a more general interest in the cognitive, material and social relationships between science, technology and business as well as their implications for present-day understandings of creativity and innovation. Dr. Guah obtained his Ph.D. in Information Systems and Management Controls from Warwick Business School, MSc in Technology Management from University of Manchester, and BSc (Honours) from Salford University, UK. He came into academia with a wealth of industrial experience spanning over ten years (Merrill Lynch, CITI Bank, HSBC, British Airways, and United Nations). He’s authored Managing Very Large IT Projects and Internet Strategy: The Road to Web Services (with W. Currie). Recent journal publications include JIT, IM, ISM, JITR, IJST&M, IT&I, IJKM, IJHT&M, and IJT&HI. Editor-in-chief for International Journal of Healthcare Delivery Reform Initiatives. Editorial membership of JCIT, SJI, JIQ, JMIS and IJEC. Track chair for major IS conferences including ICIS, ECIS and AMCIS. Member of ERIM, AIS, UKAIS, BMiS, EAA and AAA. Dr. Guah currently serves as reviewer for a research study sponsored by European Union focusing on Electronic Healthcare initiatives in several European Countries.
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