Journal of Systems Management articles from January 1990

Journal of Systems Management archives from January 1990

Changing the change agent: an admissions system case study.
January 1, 1990... Changing The Change Agent: An Admissions System Case Study IT is commonly thought that resistance to change is a characteristic of users. User resistance is often discussed as a pejorative term evoking thoughts of illegal or illicit acts....

An EDP control audit with teeth.
January 1, 1990... An EDP Control Audit With Teeth A PARTNERSHIP between the Internal Audit Department (IAD) and the Information Services Department (ISD) might seem a little like the lion lying with the lamb. But this unusual partnership was struck between...

Disposable information systems. (System Notes column.) (column)
January 1, 1990... Disposable Information Systems YOU'VE asked me to drop you a line from time to time to tell you about some of the neat systems discoveries I've made over the years. Well, the one I'd like to start with is one of the most important design...

Where are we? (Looking Into The Future column.) (column)
January 1, 1990... Where Are We? TO paraphrase, these are the first few days of the rest of our professional careers. We have entered the decade of the 1990s -- the "on ramp" to the 21st century. This decade promises to be the most exciting period in the...

Upgrading an accounting information system in a not-for-profit.
January 1, 1990... Upgrading An Accounting Information system In A Non-For-Profit The complexity involved in upgrading accounting information systems is well recognized in business environments. This complexity is also present in large not-for-profit...

Human resource information systems: user group implications.
January 1, 1990... Human Resource Information Systems: User Group Implications One of the most important and fastest growing computer applications in business today is the human resource information system (HRIS). The HRIS is the system used to acquire, store,...

Current trends in transaction processing systems.
January 1, 1990... Current Trends In Transaction Processing Systems A DATABASE is a symbolic representation of the state of a part of the real world in terms of computable objects. The state of the part of the real world is not static, and changes in this...