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IT Managers’ Role

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/89690514_dd2dbae28d.jpgMost of the Information technology management programs are designed to educate and develop managers who can effectively manage the planning, design, selection, implementation, use, and administration of emerging and converging information and communications technologies. The program curriculum provides students with the technical knowledge and management knowledge and skills needed to effectively integrate people, information and communication technologies, and business processes in support of organizational strategic goals.

1.Graduates will explain the important terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories used in the field of information technology management. 2.Graduates will be able to effectively apply important terminology, facts, concepts, principles, analytic techniques, and theories in the field of information technology management when analyzing complex factual situations. 3.Graduates will be able to effectively integrate (or synthesize) important facts, concepts, principles, and theories in the field of information technology management when developing solutions to information technology management multifaceted problems in complex factual situations.

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The definition of Information Technology Management, derived from the definition of Technology Management by Michael K. Badawy (Virginia Tech), is as follows:

Information Technology Management is concerned with exploring and understanding Information Technology as a corporate resource that determines both the strategic and operational capabilities of the firm in designing and developing products and services for maximum customer satisfaction, corporate productivity, profitability and competitiveness.[1]

IT Management is a different subject from Management Information Systems. Management Information Systems refer to information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making. [2] IT Management, as stated in the above definition, refers to the IT related management activities in organizations.

List of IT Management disciplines

The below concepts are commonly listed or investigated under the broad term IT Management: [3] [4] [5] [6]

  • Business/IT alignment
  • IT Governance
  • IT Financial Management
  • IT Service Management
  • Sourcing

References

  1. ^ M.K. Badawy (1998), Technology Management Education: Alternative Models. California Management Review. 40 (4), pp. 94–115
  2. ^ O’Brien, J (1999). Management Information Systems – Managing Information Technology in the Internetworked Enterprise. Boston: Irwin McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071123733.
  3. ^ 28 Nov. 2008 http://www.gartner.com/it/products/research/topics/topics.jsp
  4. ^ 28 Nov. 2008 http://www.gartner.com/it/products/research/research_services.jsp
  5. ^ McKeen, James D., and Smith, Heather A., Making IT Happen: Critical Issues in IT Management, Wiley Series in Information Systems, 2003
  6. ^ CIO Wisdom: Best Practise from Silicon Valley’s Leading IT Experts, Lane, D. (ed), Prentice Hall 2004

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