Information technology and the board of directors.

By R. Nolan, F. McFarlan. Harvard Business Review, 2005

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Information Systems Strategy: Reconceptualization, Measurement, and Implications (2010, background): “Such a perspective reflects the top management team’s (TMT) (including IS executives’) attitude toward IS that might be based on prior experience, personal preference, or industry requirements (Nolan and McFarlan 2005).”
Information Technology and Business-Level Strategy: Toward an Integrated Theoretical Perspective (2013, background): “effectiveness gain) or to reconfigure itself to avoid the strategic jeopardy (Nolan 1995; Nolan and McFarlan 2005) caused by a rival’s unexpected action that threatens the firm’s existence.”
Service-oriented technology and management: Perspectives on research and practice for the coming decade (2008, background): “…to formulate organizational governance in support of the service paradigm, similar to the call in the past several years for new governance approaches to the management of corporate information systems and infrastructures (Nolan and McFarlan, 2005; Nolan and McFarlan, 2005b; Weill and Ross, 2004).”