(Ebook) Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology A practical guide 1st Edition by Frank Bannister ISBN 0750658541 9780750658546

(Ebook) Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology A practical guide 1st Edition by Frank Bannister ISBN 0750658541 9780750658546

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ISBN 10: 0750658541 
ISBN 13: 9780750658546
Author: Frank Bannister

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

(Ebook) Purchasing and Financial Management of Information Technology A practical guide 1st Table of contents:

1 IT acquisition policy
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The objectives of purchasing
1.3 What makes IT purchasing different?
1.4 IT strategy and purchasing
1.5 IT value
1.6 Foundations of IT purchasing policy
1.7 Purchasing procedures
2 Dealing with suppliers
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Good supplier relationships
2.3 Poor supplier relationships
2.4 Joint development
2.5 Good suppliers
2.6 Supplier management strategies
2.7 Handling salesmen
2.8 Negotiating
2.9 Using formal tenders
2.10 Total outsourcing
2.11 Sources of supplier information
3 IT costs and cost management
3.1 Are we getting value from IT?
3.2 The dynamics of IT cost growth
3.3 Identifying IT costs
3.4 Managing hidden costs
3.5 Training costs
3.6 Managing maintenance and support costs
3.7 Testing, installation and implementation
3.8 Invisible costs
3.9 Charge-back
3.10 Outsourcing
3.11 IT asset statements
4 Evaluating and reviewing IT investments
4.1 Principles of IT evaluation
4.2 IT benefits
4.3 Why IT expenditure is difficult to evaluate
4.4 Methods of evaluating IT expenditure
4.5 IT expenditure benchmarking
4.6 Reviewing and auditing IT systems
5 IT budgeting, accounting and cost control
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Prerequisites for good IT budgeting
5.3 Why good budgeting is important
5.4 Four basic approaches to budgeting
5.5 Ownership
5.6 Practical rules for budget ownership
5.7 The scope of IT budgeting
5.8 Roles in the IT budgeting process
5.9 Building a budget
5.10 Project and expenditure justification
5.11 Charge-back budgeting
5.12 Phasing a budget
5.13 Reporting against budget
5.14 Forecasting
5.15 Good monitoring and reporting practices
5.16 Tracking hardware and software
5.17 Accounting for IT
5.18 A final checklist
6 Specifying hardware and systems software
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Two approaches to specification
6.3 Important definitions
6.4 Specifying processors
6.5 Specifying desktop machines
6.6 Specifying portable PCs
6.7 Specifying on-line storage
6.8 Specifying printers
6.9 Specifying communications requirements
6.10 System software
6.11 Specifying ergonomics
7 Specification of application software
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The importance of good software specification
7.3 Specifying requirements for packaged software
7.4 Functional requirements
7.5 Specifying custom software requirements
7.6 Conclusion
8 Purchasing other IT products and services
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Purchasing hardware maintenance
8.3 Purchasing consultancy services
8.4 Purchasing systems integration services
8.5 Purchasing contract staff
8.6 Purchasing resilience and disaster recovery capability
8.7 Purchasing security
8.8 Conclusion
9 Evaluation and selection of IT
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Overview of evaluation steps
9.3 Supplier presentations
9.4 Demonstrations
9.5 Benchmarking
9.6 Weighted ranking methods
9.7 Reference sites and site visits
9.8 Summary
10 Risk and risk management
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Supplier risks
10.3 Hardware purchasing risks
10.4 System software risks
10.5 Packaged software risks
10.6 Custom software risks
10.7 Consortium risks
10.8 People risks
10.9 Major project risks
10.10 Quantifying risk
10.11 Conclusion: risk and rationality
11 Legal aspects of purchasing
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Contracts: basic principles
11.3 Standard contracts
11.4 Negotiated contracts
11.5 Escrow and related matters
11.6 Licences
11.7 Other contract issues
11.8 Conclusion

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