Information Technology (IT) departments are under enormous pressure from corporate management to invest in technology that will make their company more competitive, profitable, and productive. This text shows IT departments how to apply strategic thinking to their systems to create and maintain aggressive and competitive computer systems. It discusses (without IT and business jargon) 40 different strategic ideas and how they can be directly applied to information technology. The book should be of interest to IT Managers of all levels, CIOs, senior business managers and systems planners.