"Ever wondered why IT investments have failed to produce the expected returns or led to unintended outcomes? Read this book, and you'll get many of the answers you're looking for!"Bob Galliers, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Bentley College, USA

• Managing information in modern organizations (Hinton); Organizing and leading the information technology function (Applegate, McFarlan and McHenney); Data, capta, information and knowledge (Checkland and Holwell); The process of information management (Hinton); The processes which information systems support (Checkland and Holwell); Organizations and information (Orna); Generic types of information systems (Hinton); Business information systems (O’Brien); Information systems for human resource applications (Bee and Bee); Distributed systems, EDI and the organization (Curtis and Cobham); Strategy and information systems (Curtis and Cobham); The search for opportunity (Applegate, McFarlan and McKenney); The need for redesign (Robson); Investing in information technology (Hinton and Kaye).