Re‐engineering information technology: an enabler for the new business strategy

Addresses the need for re‐engineering information systems (IS) in a rapidly changing environment, and the urgency of doing this to meet current and future needs of organizations whose existence is dependent on coping with rapidly changing requirements. Implicit in this view is the need for restructuring the industry to meet new applications including the creation of software for an era that has not quite arrived. Stresses the interdependence of technical, organizational, and human aspects in the integration of a broad range of new methodologies and tools needed to create software for the balance of this century. Re‐engineering is the examination and alteration of a system to reconstitute it in a new form and the subsequent implementation of the new form. Looks into the major management alternatives or options with particular focus on functional and information managers and their organizations.