
It's common in the IT industry to hear of project disasters: overdue products, blown budget estimates, and dismal results. And the root cause of most of these commonplace disasters is the simple...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-01-30 00:00:00
- Tags: Information, Systems, Project, Management,

Despite people's best efforts information systems are particularly prone to failure. Some systems never materialize, others appear late and/or over budget and those that are implemented often...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-03-04 00:00:00
- Tags: Information, Systems, Achieving, Success, Avoiding, Failure,

Taking the recent discussions on the status of information systems as a discrete discipline as its starting point, The Past and Future of Information Systems draws together many of the pioneers...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2004-05-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Past, Future, Information, Systems,

Handbook of Critical Information Systems Research: Theory And Application (Elgar Original Reference)
This important Handbook provides a unique overview of information systems (IS) research by focusing on the increasing interest in critical-related issues. Representing a significant step forward...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-11-06 00:00:00
- Tags: Handbook, Critical, Information, Systems, Research, Theory, Application, Elgar, Original, Reference,

The book brings together recent qualitative research studies in enterprise-wide implementations. The collection is useful as a teaching case for academia, a student reference and also for...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-03-22 00:00:00
- Tags: Qualitative, Case, Studies, Implementation, Enterprise, Wide, Systems,

A completely revised update of the First Edition, this book focuses exclusively on outsourcing information technology such as data processing, computer systems, and specialized software programs...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-09-08 00:00:00
- Tags: Information, Technology, Outsourcing, Transactions, Process, Strategies, Contracts,

A unifying foundation to design and implement process-aware information systems This publication takes on the formidable task of establishing a unifying foundation and set of common...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-09-28 00:00:00
- Tags: Process, Aware, Information, Systems, Bridging, People, Software, Through, Process, Technology,

Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, gives information to the history behind grid technology evolution, and supplies the reader...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-12-22 00:00:00
- Tags: Building, Managing, Enterprise, Wide, Portals,

Provides a complete methodology for everything from strategic planning to the selection of new technologies and the evaluation of application releases. A visual guide to developing an effective...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2003-02-25 00:00:00
- Tags: Business, Intelligence, Roadmap, Complete, Project, Lifecycle, Decision, Support, Applications,

Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues brings together authoritative authors to address one of the most pressing challenges in the IT field...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-03-08 00:00:00
- Tags: Enterprise, Information, Systems, Assurance, System, Security, Managerial, Technical, Issues,

An engine of the world economy?the computer industry?is sputtering. What happened? Will it regain its power and again drive economic growth as in the past? No. That?s the surprising...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2004-04-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Technology, Paradise, Lost, Why, Companies, Will, Spend, Less, Get, More, from, Information, Technology,

In today?s competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2004-11-04 00:00:00
- Tags: Information, Management, Systems, Product, Customization, Integrated, Series, Information, Systems,

E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-04-25 00:00:00
- Tags: Health, Care, Information, Systems, Introduction, Students, Professionals,

Advances in the Economics of Information Systems provides a wide perspective on the issues related to applications of economics to information systems area. From grid computing to online...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2004-12-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Advances, Economics, Information, Systems,

Discussion of the precise nature of the Information System discipline has raged for more than twenty years and continues fiercely today. The most interesting aspect of recent debate is not only...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-05-19 00:00:00
- Tags: Information, Systems, State, Field, John, Wiley, Series, Information, Systems,

Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance addresses the recent developments of systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2004-07-15 00:00:00
- Tags: Managing, Corporate, Information, Systems, Evolution, Maintenance,

Strategic Planning for Information Systems explores the impact that information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) have on business performance and the contribution that they make to...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2002-06-15 00:00:00
- Tags: Strategic, Planning, Information, Systems,

Currently, there is neither a commonly-accepted definition of information systems (IS) quality nor a convergence of perspectives on quality approaches. The IS community has focused on the various...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-04-26 00:00:00
- Tags: Measuring, Information, Systems, Delivery, Quality,

Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-06-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Cases, Information, Technology, Planning, Design, Implementation, Cases, Information, Technology, Series,

This book introduces the inter-organizational information system for managing inter-organizational activities of virtual organizations, extended enterprises, and trans-enterprise systems. This...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-03-22 00:00:00
- Tags: Inter, Organizational, Information, Systems, Internet, Age,

This is the only book that covers all the topics that any budding security manager needs to know! This book is written for managers responsible for IT/Security departments from mall office...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-07-17 00:00:00
- Tags: How, Cheat, Managing, Information, Security,

From the senior management to the clerical and support group levels, this study addresses the possible pitfalls and triumphs of implementing information technology (IT) into organizations in...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2003-04-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Computing, Information, Technology, Human, Side,

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the use of information technology in manufacturing, so much so that it has rapidly permeated the organization at every level. Consequently, there is a...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-10-19 00:00:00
- Tags: Manufacturing, Information, Data, Systems, Analysis, Design, Practice, Manufacturing, Engineering, Series,

Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems is an overview of current research in theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems, in particular in...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2004-02-27 00:00:00
- Tags: Information, Security, Policies, Actions, Modern, Integrated, Systems,

Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade. An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-06-21 00:00:00
- Tags: Medical, Informatics, Knowledge, Management, Data, Mining, Biomedicine, Integrated, Series, Information, Systems,

This handbook gives an overview on engineering of business information systems with agent technology. It introduces into this challenge, describes how to identify and to address the relevant...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-06-14 00:00:00
- Tags: Multiagent, Engineering, Theory, Applications, Enterprises, International, Handbooks, Information, Systems,

On September 11, 2001 the World became completely cognizant of the security challenges it faces on an international scale. With this awareness a commitment has come from the scientific,...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-02-10 00:00:00
- Tags: Intelligence, Security, Informatics, International, Security, Information, Sharing, Data, Mining, Integrated, Series, Information, Systems,

The graph is a critical and useful concept in designing many information processing systems. Systems such as transaction processing systems, decision support systems, and workflow systems are...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2006-12-04 00:00:00
- Tags: Metagraphs, Their, Applications, Integrated, Series, Information, Systems,

The concept of content delivery has become increasingly more important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information from the Internet. The content can...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-08-16 00:00:00
- Tags: Web, Content, Delivery, Web, Information, Systems, Engineering, Internet, Technologies, Book, Series,

This volume is comprised of the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Development held August 26th-28th, 2004, at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,...
- Category: Information Systems
- Release Date: 2005-07-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Information, Systems, Development, Advances, Theory, Practice, Education,

