{"title":"Information technology: grasping at governance","authors":"G. Coupe","doi":"10.1145/226191.226208","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"■ The Shell companies1 together form one of the largest business enterprises in the world. They handle almost a tenth of the world’s oil and natural gas outside of the former centrally planned economies, exploring for and producing, purchasing, processing, and selling oil and gas. They are among the world’s leading chemical businesses, and represent the largest total investment in chemicals by any of the major oil companies. Within this context, information technology (IT) plays an important role in enabling Shell staff to pursue their business objectives. With an annual budget in the Shell Group of well over $1 billion, IT also comes in for a good deal of scrutiny by business management. This article examines a number of issues surrounding the matching of enabling technologies with business requirements, including:","PeriodicalId":270594,"journal":{"name":"ACM Stand.","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Stand.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/226191.226208","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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■ The Shell companies1 together form one of the largest business enterprises in the world. They handle almost a tenth of the world’s oil and natural gas outside of the former centrally planned economies, exploring for and producing, purchasing, processing, and selling oil and gas. They are among the world’s leading chemical businesses, and represent the largest total investment in chemicals by any of the major oil companies. Within this context, information technology (IT) plays an important role in enabling Shell staff to pursue their business objectives. With an annual budget in the Shell Group of well over $1 billion, IT also comes in for a good deal of scrutiny by business management. This article examines a number of issues surrounding the matching of enabling technologies with business requirements, including:
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