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1998 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Information Systems Management
Author : Paul Beynon-Davies
Published in: Information Systems Development
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Planning is the process of determining what to do over a given time-period. Managing is the process of executing, evaluating and adapting plans in the face of contingencies. The issue of management and how it relates to IS development is a large one. In this chapter we limit ourselves to discussing the following issues: the perceived role of the IS services function, the importance of IS/IT to the organisation and the role of risk in managing the applications development portfolio.