Journal of Systems Management articles from August 1993

Journal of Systems Management archives from August 1993

Starting and staffing your development center. (includes related articles on client/server development centers, the use of development centers, and an actual center's mission and goals statement)
August 1, 1993... The systems development game is changing. In fact, if it ever was a game, it is no longer. Companies are adopting advanced tools, such as design repositories and code generators and are applying them with innovative techniques such as Automated...

Developing an employee-centered electronic monitoring system.
August 1, 1993... Many electronic performance monitoring systems have been extremely successful, not only raising the productivity of workers, but also raising the level of employee morale. At the same time, other electronic monitoring systems fail to reach...

Integrating data security into the systems development life cycle.
August 1, 1993... The approach that many organizations adopt is that information is an asset. An information systems professional aptly notes: "Computers control assets that used to be stored in a vault. Now the computer has to be treated as a vault" (Cerow,...

Monitoring database performance in an end user environment.
August 1, 1993... The database system is expected to perform many different functions for the organization. One of the database administrator's (DBA)jobs is to determine what performance expectations are realistic, and to tune and control the performance of the...

Cultivating the champions for strategic information systems.
August 1, 1993... Many businesses today find themselves in increasingly competitive markets. They are going head-to-head against firms which are better capitalized, or have superior access to natural resources or labor which is more cost-effective. According to...