Journal of Systems Management articles from July 1991

Journal of Systems Management archives from July 1991

Organizational success through effective systems analysis.
July 1, 1991... It's large, it's costly, it's incompetent -- but just try firing a computer system..." This quote from a 1988 issue of Business Week expresses a wide range of responses to the ultimate efforts of most systems analysts. And most of these...

Systems analysis for data communications networks at an electric utility.
July 1, 1991... The new competitive environment for information systems is characterized by the merging of computing and telecommunications into a single information technology infrastructure, one that is having a dramatic impact on information systems around...

A case study of systems analysis at the American Red Cross.
July 1, 1991... Approximately seven years ago while working at Clark University in Worcester, MA, as an assistant profesosr of management information systems, I accepted a consulting assignment with the local Red Cross Chapter to help them straighten out a...

Enterprise analysis and global needs assessment. (First Person) (column)
July 1, 1991... Many information systems organizations utilize the services of a planning staff to assist in evaluating and prioritizing the systems, programming and maintenance projects. The need for improved technological support in the 1990s requires the...

Business survival in the 1990s. (Looking Back ) (column)
July 1, 1991... A few weeks ago, I attended a rather plush breakfast meeting at the Garden City Hotel in Long Island with Alan Hoffberg, president of Information Resource Management, who is also a member of the Association for Systems Management's New York...

Don't let users develop applications without systems analysis.
July 1, 1991... Most professional MIS personnel would not build a system without some attention to formal analysis and design rules. Their attention may be limited to specification of inputs and outputs, or minimal definitions of processing requirements in...

Using structured methodology for software project success.
July 1, 1991... It is not surprising to read about or hear of computer software (methodology) problems that plague industrial or governmental organizations, whether they are errors in computations or other malfunctions. One major banking organization is the...

Object-oriented systems analysis: a methodology for the 1990s.
July 1, 1991... What do you get when you cross data modeling with process modeling? Object-oriented analysis (OOA)! In fact, one of the first books published with object-oriented analysis in the title, Shlaer and Mellor's Object-Oriented Systems Analysis, was...