Comparison of approaches to management strategy of corporate IS/ICT

The aim of this bachelor thesis is comparison of approaches to strategic management of enterprise and IS/ICT, identification of relationship of both areas during their evolution and in presence mainly from point of view of large companies. The thesis attends to both areas of strategic management (business and IS/ICT), their particular historic and current trends and issues. These areas are subsequently put into context and particular connections and common trends of both areas are described. The first part of the thesis is divided into two parts. Its first part contains a research of approaches to strategic management of enterprise outside of area of IS/ICT. The second part contains a research of approaches to strategic management of IS/ICT in the enterprise. In the second part of the thesis based on both researches a hypothesis of relationship of both areas of strategic management is established. The hypothesis attends to the fundamental question of strategic value of IT in the enterprise and subsequently to relationship of business and IT parts of enterprise during their evolution including a forecast to future. In the last part of the thesis the hypothesis is further amplified and reflected on the basis of the previous researches. In this part of the thesis are accumulated statements and opinions of some authors which attended to question of strategic value of IT in the enterprise especially after the so called dot-com era and subsequently those statements are evaluated from the current point of view. Further the last part of the thesis closely attends to evolution of business and IT areas and describes connections and relationship of both the areas during their evolution until the present. The thesis thus provides a comprehensive comparison of business and IT areas in the enterprise and describes the evolution of their relationship until the present, particularly from the perspective of strategic management.