Information Technology Management and Organizational Innovations: Proceedings of the 1996 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, WashingtonMehdi Khosrowpour Emerging information technologies of the past few decades are now providing organizations with new tools to develop innovative organizational concepts and applications. This book is a collection of timely research and practical papers on the subject of IT management and its role in organizational innovation. |
Contents
An Institutional and Resource Dependence Perspective | 2 |
Evidence from Recent Risk Management Failures | 9 |
Global and Strategic Impact of Information Technology | 19 |
Challenges and Opportunities for Information Systems Professionals | 24 |
Some Lessons from the Field | 29 |
Does Behavior Across Cultures Vary? | 38 |
Contributions of IT to the Genesis of Network Organizations | 46 |
Introduction of Electronic Data Interchange in Mexico | 53 |
A Comparison of Personality Profiles of MIS Professionals and MIS Students | 357 |
Courses Adapting the Teaching Style to Diverse Learning Styles | 362 |
ISM Survey Course Explores Emerging Technologies | 367 |
A New Building A Better Way of Teaching and Learning For MIS Teachers and Students | 372 |
Expert Systems Technologies | 377 |
The Experts point of view | 378 |
Induced Decision Trees for Costly Data | 381 |
Accounting | 384 |
A CrossCultural Study | 60 |
A Global Perspective | 67 |
The Human Side of Information Technology Management | 72 |
Error Detection and Correction in Actuarial Data | 73 |
It Management in Developing Countries | 80 |
The Relationship of Some Personal and Situational Factors to Information Systems Effectiveness | 81 |
Emerging Technologies Management | 87 |
Adapting Theory to Practice | 88 |
Overview and Future Directions | 95 |
The Dilemma of EDIProblem Analysis of Current Standards | 101 |
The InterOrganizational Impact of Electronic Data Interchange on Customer Service in the Pharmaceutical Industry | 108 |
A MultiDisciplinary Approach to Identifying and Managing Software Development Risk | 115 |
Strategic Information Technology Management | 121 |
Experiences from Two Cases | 122 |
A Planning Framework | 132 |
Innovative Concept for Leaner Information Systems Management? | 141 |
So Why Arent the Punters Beating a Path to Our Door | 148 |
Managing Chaos and Complexity in Changing Organizations | 156 |
A Framework for EIS Development in the Public Sector | 161 |
Incorporating Risk and Uncertainty into Software Cost Estimation | 169 |
A Strategic Link | 174 |
Rationale Concepts and Facilitation | 183 |
Why ClientServer? | 192 |
a missing tool for effective BPR problem diagnosis | 196 |
A Research Framework for Identifying Opportunities and Threats in EDI Integration Process | 202 |
Telecommunications and Networking Technologies | 208 |
Security Issues and Concerns with Internet | 209 |
Information Technology Management in Europe | 216 |
Exploring the Issues in Knowledge Management | 217 |
The Push Pull Profession Practitioner Perspectives on Lotus Notes Initiation | 223 |
Production Management and Information Architectures in the Food Supply Chain | 232 |
Standardization and Certification of IS Development | 240 |
Database Decision Support Technologies | 245 |
A Framework for Requirements Analysis of Distributed Decision Support Systems for Physician Diagnosis | 246 |
End User Computing | 252 |
Evidence from a Voice Mail Introduction | 253 |
An Exploratory Study On EUC Phenomena In Taiwans Industry | 258 |
Success Factors for Data Warehouse Introduction | 265 |
The Effect of Priorities Introduced during Computer Acquisition on Continuing Success with Information Technology in the Small Business Environ... | 271 |
A Cross Cultural Study of Attitudinal Factors | 278 |
ComputerAided Software Engineering Tools | 283 |
A Communication Paradigm to Support Multiparty Specification | 284 |
Assessing the Impact of CASE Tools | 292 |
ObjectOriented Technology | 298 |
Proposition to Design an Object System Evolution | 299 |
A Case of Inventory Management | 308 |
Which Identification and Refinement Strategies Do Analysts Really Use? | 316 |
Societal Issues in Information ResourcesManagement | 327 |
An Exploratory Study | 328 |
The Evolution of Cyberspace | 333 |
Information Technologies Education | 339 |
Assessing Basic Technology Usage by Undergraduates at a Leading Four Year Institution of Higher Education | 340 |
LowBudget Quality Information Systems Education | 344 |
International Dimensions of An Information Systems Curriculum | 349 |
Integrating Five Critical Abilities Into the Undergraduate Curriculum | 353 |
User SatisfactionA Study of the Notions of Process and Outcome | 385 |
Executive Abstracts | 389 |
Global | 390 |
An Examination of the Unique Issues | 391 |
Human Side of Information Technology | 392 |
Change ManagementThe Human Side | 394 |
A Longitudinal Study of Electronic Communications Use | 395 |
Mandatory Use and Discretionary Use | 396 |
Can Institutions Afford to Turn Away Their Own Graduates? | 398 |
An Evolutionary Perspective of the Profiles of Women as MIS Academicians | 400 |
IT Management in Developing Countries | 401 |
A Contingency Based Capability Evolution Model | 403 |
Emerging Technologies Management | 404 |
A Case Study of Successful Projects | 406 |
A Prototyping Experience | 408 |
An Effort Toward Impact Assessment | 411 |
Strategic Information Technology Management | 413 |
A View from the Top | 415 |
Impact on Strategic Management | 416 |
A Case Study of SEIU Local 36 | 418 |
An Answer from Healthcare | 419 |
Expanding the Scope For 2000 and Beyond | 420 |
Telecommunications and Networking Technologies | 422 |
Guilty of Encouraging Email Signature Forging? | 424 |
A Critical Review | 425 |
Broadband Network Management and Its Information Model | 426 |
IT Management in Europe | 427 |
Approach to Management of the National Computer and Communication Infrastructure Development | 428 |
Information Systems Outsourcing Decision Making in Europe | 430 |
End User Computing | 431 |
The Alignment of Information Architectures in the Food Supply Chain | 433 |
ComputerAided Software Engineering | 435 |
Evaluation of Interactive Educational Multimedia Applications | 436 |
Integrating Environmental Systems Into the Information System Development Process | 437 |
Implications of CASE Tools | 438 |
ObjectsOriented Technology | 440 |
What Ever Happened to the Re in Object Recycling | 442 |
Societal Issues in Information Resources Management | 443 |
Do they contradict each other? | 444 |
Information Technologies Education | 445 |
How Does the Internet Meet the Curricular Demands of IS Programs? | 446 |
How Can Universities Reeducate the American IT Professional? | 448 |
Systems Analysis Design Development and Implementation of an Electronic Grade Book for University Professors | 449 |
New Courses Involving Information Communication | 450 |
Distance Learning Technologies | 452 |
Social Anxiety in Students Reactions to the Distance Learning Interface | 453 |
An InteractiveBased Typology for RealTime Learning Environments | 454 |
A Distance Education Experiment | 455 |
Expert Systems Technologies | 456 |
Teaching Information Systems via Interactive Television | 457 |
Accounting | 459 |
In Search of an Effectiveness Model | 460 |
Panel Summaries | 461 |
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