Synopses & Reviews
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
* Shows how to deal with suppliers
* Explains how to evaluate IT costs and benefits
* Demonstrates how to budget and control costs
Synopsis
Based on the author's 25+ years experience, the book provides practical advice to Information Technology (IT) professionals on both day to day and strategic problems. by presenting a detailed review of policy issues as well a set of procedures they can adopt or adapt to their own organization.
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
vice 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
About the Author
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 designanddevelopment and in system specificationandselection. 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.
Table of Contents
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.