Information Systems Management - Opportunities and Risks

This textbook addresses the range of issues that need to be considered when managing an information system. The author's aim is to encourage a more critical evaluation of computer-based information systems and to foster a more objective approach to the inherent advantages and disadvantages.

List of contents

Introduction: The Need for Balance - Understanding Information Systems - Strategy and Tactics - The Organisation of the Information System Function - Integrity of Information Systems - Information Technology and Information Systems - Databases and the Management of Information - Data Communications and Network Services - Office Information Systems - Information Systems Development - Evaluation, Monitoring and Control - Managing Function and Phenomena.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Angell, Ian O Angell, Ian O. Angell, Steve Smithson
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1991
• EAN: 9780333536810
• ISBN: 978-0-333-53681-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 399 g
• Illustrations: VII, 248 p.
• Series: Information Systems Series (iss); Information Systems; Information Systems; Information Systems Series (iss)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management