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CONGRATULATIONS. You and the rest of the business process reengineering team have finally completed your company's first major project. It was more hard work than you ever imagined. There were […]

An Appraisal Of Executive Information And Decision Support Systems The necessity of compiling a clear and comprehensive summation of diffuse operational data to facilitate high-quality managerial decision making has become […]

The Stages of CASE Usage The dynamic environment of business and government today requires that information-processing systems become available more quickly and at reduced cost. The response window for creating […]

Borderless Banking Draws IS Interest Big money is behind the European Economic Community's 1993 crusade to blend borders and meld markets among its 12 member nations. That money is managed […]

Eight years ago a group of IT gurus predicted that any institution failing to fully utilise state-of-the-art technology would stagnate in the 1990s. John Lloyd Davies examines the validity of […]

The Best-Made LANs Need Business Plans Bringing a LAN to life in a large corporation today requires more than the right product mix, cost-justification and a companywide connectivity plan. At […]

Playing in Concert There's new score being written that says PC local area networks are fast becoming the domain of central IS executives. Like their now-fallen PC brethren, or so […]

Federal Express's ability to move parcels from one side of the world to another in a day depends on one of the most sophisticated IT operations on the planet. However, […]

Not long ago, the choice of desktop operating systems boiled down to DOS for business users and the Macintosh for artistic types. Choices were few, problems were simple, and users […]

One large company that isn't rushing to embrace Windows NT is the UNUM Life Insurance Co., headquartered in Portland, Maine. UNUM, which bills itself as the world's largest carrier of […]

'Seen any good software lately? Anything that could really make us more productive or competitive. You know, stuff that really works?' Those were the questions a friend asked recently. Like […]

Business schools, one of the booms of the 1980s, have not been slow to latch onto the trendy message of computing for competitive advantage. But a sceptical Michael Prochak thinks […]

By Cheryl Currid There's a lot to be said for technical knowledge. Without it, most information services managers couldn't do their jobs very well. But these days, surviving in the […]

By Cheryl Currid Most computer industry soothsayers, IS managers and informed corporate citizens expect client/server technology to grow as an important force in corporate computing. This technology, which promises greater […]

By Cheryl Currid Information-management watchers were all abuzz the other week as the bad news came out about Mutual Benefits Life. The once-sparkling success story of an information-management consulting firm […]

For years, corporate computer professionals have been branded as too tied to technology issues and not focused on business. They get a bad rap for it. Technology managers aren't considered […]

What Factors Influence Software Selection? When computers came into the workplace, they changed it forever. Armed with this technology, the office has gained a momentum of its own. That momentum […]

Pac Bell Relies on 'Good Communications' At Pacific Bell in San Francisco, writing a business plan for implementing a LAN is like writing a business plan for a mainframe. Ray […]

For those of us on the right side of a network cable, it's hard to realize that LANs aren't a regular issue in every company. Doesn't every new employee get […]

NETWORK Apple Mac users have always appreciated the value of a strong graphical user interface (GUI), bringing with it the ease-of-use associated with scroll bars, drop down menus and mouse […]

Pity poor Lockheed. The Burbank, Calif., aerospace firm took the time, money and trouble to build what was by all accounts a sophisticated executive information system (EIS) for tracking its […]

Technology Integration, Agents Of Change And A New IS Culture Technology integration's toughest challenge is in the people arena. Ed Mahler, Du Pont's future computer technology visionary, says that technology […]