Chapter 1 Going Shopping
This being a book about buying IT systems, in this first chapter, we’re going to look at how the business decides that it needs to buy something. In reality, this is more a chapter around how to start building an IT strategy within the organisation. If you’re a reader of this book, chances are that you are a non-technical manager embarking on a project that will see the organisation buy a new IT system. One mistake – call it an “opportunity” rather than a “mistake” – that people in that situation sometimes make is to look at that system in isolation, rather than as part of a broader information technology strategy. (And, if you’re a non-technical manager heading up this sort of project, ...
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