Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases

Overall, I have to rate this book a "meh", neither good nor bad. It's a disappointingly average textbook, and didn't make the final cut for inclusion on my permanent bookshelf. I think there is a good amount of useful information contained inside of it, but it's often difficult to get at. I consider myself a pretty good reader, but even I had to re-read portions of it multiple times before the information "sunk in". This book was for a graduate level MIS course and we covered it in the second half of a semester, which I think is sufficient time to read it in.Concerns/observations:- Very expensive.- Little source material outside HBS.- Detailed, but written using dense language. ESL students might have some issues here.- Contained interesting cases, but all out-of-date. With a 2009 copyright, I expected more recent examples.- Some chapters and appendixes are great (e.g. 1, 2 & 3, Porter's Five Competitive Forces), but most were just ok (and some just plain bad, e.g. 9).- Beyond the cases, chapters were short on real-life, practical examples related to the chapter content. That was surprising and a big negative for me.- Good illustrations. Others have pointed out lack of labeling or descriptions, but I think text covers them reasonably well.- Excellent chapter ending questions.- Not too technical, non-IT business people should be ok grasping the concepts.

I bought this book for a IT class, the book is easy to follow. It does not repeat itself as other books I have read. My only complaint on the book is the size of the graphics, they are very small and hard to read, I had to use a magnifier glass. The book measures about 7" x 9", is small, but has a lot of material to read.Great book.

Came in great condition and it has a lot of good cases in it!

The book is decent but overpriced. Its amazing how publishers think they could write a book like this and charge almost 200 dollars for it and how schools go along with ripping off their students.Furthermore, I paid for expedited shipping and it got here 3 days late.

As the title stated this book is great resource for developing understandings in IT management. I used this text in a strategy and management course in 4th year of university. I particularly enjoyed reading the chapters surrounding corporate and IT strategy.

Easy

If you need this book for a class, sorry. If you're like me and occasionally buy textbooks to use as references, then you can do better than this. There's not much substance here.

A great book to start questioning IT strategy. Business Process Management planning step by step to ensure IT can support the business today and tomorrow