Toward Corporate IT Standardization Management: Frameworks and Solutions: Frameworks and Solutions

van Wessel, Robert

Feb 2010 · IGI Global

About this ebook

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.

About the author

Robert M. van Wessel (Author) holds a Master in Electrical Engineering from Twente University and an Ph.D. in Business Administration from Tilburg University (Department of Information Systems and Management). Robert’s research interests relate to the interaction and alignment of Business & Information Technology and include Business Performance and the Value of IT, Portfolio Management, IT Governance, Information Security Management and IT Standardization & Standards.

Robert has a broad expertise on the practical application of IT, ranging from data modeling to IT Service Management. Robert is currently Business Architect at a financial services enterprise and founder of ApexIS, a firm providing consultancy services to companies in his areas of research.

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