Guides the reader through the IT investment literature. The book then relates IT investment of organizational strategic and economic performance through the use of different models, methods and procedures. Finally, it provides strategies for making before-the-fact IT investment decisions.

Assessing IT performance; What the experts say; Banking on IT investment - where are the returns?; IT investment impact on competing delivery conditions; estimating the value of IT through resource analysis; Acquisition, ownership and use of IT property rights as a competitive weapon; Information technology in changing economies - necessity or luxury?; Managing information technology - an integrative model; Incorporating learning, and information technology; Ho IT expenditures differ for growing versus declining organizations; IT investment impact on quality management; Economic impact of the diversity of IT applications; When IT creates a threat and an opportunity; and much more!.