Journal of Systems Management articles from August 1994

Journal of Systems Management archives from August 1994

Auditing for database integrity. (IS Management)
August 1, 1994... Over 50% of Chief Information Officers recently surveyed by MIT believed that their data was less than 95% accurate and hence limited in its usefulness; 70% of IS professionals believed that corrupted data had delayed business operations; 69%...

Are you starving your process? A case study in business process engineering. (Case Study)
August 1, 1994... Once upon a time there was a project team. They began a new project as they would begin a new adventure. They were filled with excitement and anticipation. They planned meticulously, producing pages and pages of beautiful graphics showing gantt...

Do you know where the briefcase is? Reaching the full potential of business resumption planning. (IS Management)
August 1, 1994... In October 1990, a major earthquake hit the San Francisco area, where an international corporation, headquartered in the southwest, runs a large facility. The immediate concern of the executive team was to obtain basic information concerning the...

So you want to have corporate standards? (IS Fundamentals)
August 1, 1994... So you want to have corporate standards? Let me guess, you're either IS management or senior staff and you've just assumed the task of developing them and you're looking for some advice to get you started. Or maybe you've heard about all the good...

Two tiers or three? (part 8) (Client/Server Strategies)
August 1, 1994... This is the eighth in a series of columns on Client/Server Architectures. Last month we discussed the need for an explicit architecture. This month, an example of the type of issue which will come up in your architectural discussions: how many...

Systems Development Led by end-Users: an assessment of end-user involvement in information systems development. (includes related article) (IS Management)
August 1, 1994... Before the 1980s, data services departments developed all large computer-based information systems. Data services used formal (SDLC-based) methods that required little more than a statement of requirements from the ultimate users of the system....