Toward Corporate IT Standardization Management: Frameworks and Solutions

The world of corporate management benefits when organizations realize the profitability, reliability, and flexibility obtained through IT standardization.

Toward Corporate IT Standardization Management: Frameworks and Solutions details the IT standards conceptual model through insightful case studies that illustrate the factors affecting the performance of business processes. By offering organizations the opportunity to enhance process performance through IT standardization, this reference work demonstrates the effectiveness of IT standards, and the applicable techniques for implementation and management of such practices. This book features information useful to educators and students in the fields of Information Systems, IT-Management, Business Studies, and Economics, as well as IT practitioners and IS Managers.

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

• Benefits and Risks of Standardization and Standards
• Business Process Management
• Business Process Performance
• Elements of process performance
• External Standardization Processes
• Governance and Management
• IT Policy
• IT Standards and Standardization
• Managerial Implications
• The Conceptual Model