Cases on Information Technology Management In Modern Organizations

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Jay Liebowitz

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-878289-37-7

ISBN13: 9781878289377|ISBN10: 1878289373|EISBN13: 9781799829959

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Information systems educators, professionals and students learn best from the experience of others. Successes and failures from others can help the information systems community further develop and flourish. An effective means for conveying these experiences and lessons learned is through case studies.

Cases on Information Technology Management in Modern Organizations is a compilation of original case studies that describes information technology experiences in both domestic and international organizations and offers managerial solutions on IT use, adoption and management. Each of the 22 cases has been carefully structured to provide background information, project description, current status of the case/project, successes and failures, epilogue and lessons learned, and a series of questions for discussion.

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Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the Nova Southeastern University (Florida, USA). Dr. Khosrow-Pour taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg for almost 20 years. He is currently Executive Editor at IGI Global (www.igi-global.com). He also serves as Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) (www.irma-international.org) and Executive Director of the World Forgotten Children’s Foundation (www.world-forgotten-children.org). He is the author/editor of more than 100 books in information technology management. He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Computing, International Journal of Library and Information Services, International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and International Journal of Natural Computing Research, and is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, and the Journal of Information Technology Research, and has authored more than 50 articles published in various conference proceedings and scholarly journals.

Jay Liebowitz held the Chaired Professorship in Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Army War College, and is also Professor of Management Science at George Washington University. He has published 18 books and over 200 journal articles, mostly in expert systems and information technology. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Expert Systems with Applications the Associate Editor of the international journal, Telematics and Informatics.

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