
Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology
A practical guide
Frank Bannister(Author)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2003
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-7506-5854-6 (ISBN)
Description
Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology aims to significantly reduce the amount of money wasted on IT by providing readers with a comprehensive guide to all aspects of planning, managing and controlling IT purchasing and finance. Starting from a recognition that IT purchasing and the financial management often needs to be treated differently from other types of expenditure, the author draws on over 25 years of experience in the field to provide readers with useful mixture of good procedures and common sense rules that have been tried, tested and found to work. Many of these are illustrated by case histories, each with a moral or a lesson.
Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology provides useful guidelines and advice on whole range of topics including:
* IT acquisitions policy
* Dealing with suppliers
* Budgeting and cost control
* IT cost and risk management
* Specification, selection and evaluation of systems
* IT value for money
Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology provides useful guidelines and advice on whole range of topics including:
* IT acquisitions policy
* Dealing with suppliers
* Budgeting and cost control
* IT cost and risk management
* Specification, selection and evaluation of systems
* IT value for money
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-5854-6 (9780750658546)
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Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology
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Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology
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06/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€94.99
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Person
Frank Bannister is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at Trinity College, Dublin. After graduating from university, he joined the Irish civil service and worked in operations research and economic policy for three years prior to joining Price Waterhouse as a management consultant in 1978. Over the following sixteen years to 1994, he worked with Price Waterhouse on a wide range of information systems assignments in Ireland, the U.K. and Europe in both the public and private sectors, specialising in financial modelling, system design & development and in system specification & selection. He remained a Consulting Associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting until their take-over by IBM in January 2003. In 1994 he moved to Trinity College where he is currently Director of Studies for the Management Science and Information Systems (MSISS) programme. His currently teaching responsibilities include strategic information systems and decision making and modelling. His research interests are in IT value and evaluation, IT acquisition as well as in e-government and e-democracy. Frank has written many articles on information technology and systems and has lectured extensively on these and related topics in Ireland and the UK.
Content
IT Acquisition Policy; Dealing with Suppliers; IT Costs and Cost Management; Evaluating and Reviewing IT Investments; IT Budgeting, Accounting and Cost Control; Specifying Hardware and Systems Software; Specification of Application Software; Purchasing Other IT Products and Services; Evaluation and Selection of IT; Risk and Risk Management; Legal Aspects of Purchasing.