Cultivating the strategic use of information technology: lessons from hong kong

An executice decelopment programme which facilitates the strategic management of information resources is described. this programme uses a contriubution of mini-lectures and experiential learning in a workshop, format to help senior managers play an information technolofy (IT) leadership role in their entepires. It is noted that the growing importance of information and its associated technology has increased the need for a proactice management approach in current and near-future business environments. The growing possibilities which are resulting from rapid progress in IT must be linked with businerr needs and competitive imperatices to achieve a strategic impact with IT, as illustrated by; classic example of strategir-level information systems. The leadership development programme considen a framework for developing a strategic vision of IT in a particular enterprise and then facilitates the planning strategie infirmation .system to support that vision, using a entical success factors approach.