Journal of Systems Management articles from July 1995

Journal of Systems Management archives from July 1995

Managing the media ... when crises arise in the information systems department.(Cover Story)
July 1, 1995... As public awareness grows regarding the effects of computers on everyday lives, so does the probability that Information Systems professionals will have to deal with the media regarding some aspect of their operations. Unfortunately, some media...

The BOX. (information systems professionals' preoccupation with technology)
July 1, 1995... This column has pretty much lambasted the technology freaks in the world. It's as good a time as any to explain why. First, we have to determine exactly what the "BOX" is. For purposes of this column, the "BOX" is anything and everything except...

Case based reasoning. (case based reasoning systems)
July 1, 1995... Case based reasoning (CBR) has tremendous potential to reduce the systems development effort and assist information systems managers and developers. CBR systems use previous successful problem solving episodes as knowledge to solve a current...

CASE tool selection. (computer-aided software engineering)
July 1, 1995... Using Methodology Support to Choose the Right Tool for the Job One important role of a CASE tool is to serve as a methodology companion, i.e., to assist the user in the creation of documentation passed to succeeding phases of the life cycle,...

Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer.
July 1, 1995... "Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer" views the emerging competitive environment in technologically advanced societies through the eyes of researchers in the Agility Forum (nee Agile Manufacturing...

Achieving the vision. (excerpt from Anne M. Purr speech)(Transcript)
July 1, 1995... The Vision is bold; it's ambitious; it's full of opportunity. I am honored and excited about the challenges that face us in ASM during the next year. Back in September of 1994, I promised our International Board of Directors that I would...

Conceiving strategic systems.
July 1, 1995... What are Critical Value Activities... and how can they help your company? Strategic systems create competitive advantages for business firms that develop them. While firms are strongly motivated to build strategic systems, these systems are...

Client/server or cooperative processing?
July 1, 1995... This spring, I was working a booth at an information technology trade show in the Great Lakes region, on behalf of one of my clients. I was approached by a large number of attendees, some deeply committed to the concept of client/server...

Client/server: myths & realities.
July 1, 1995... Car bumper stickers often reflect profound social and political values with messages such as END NUCLEAR WAR, END WORLD HUNGER, STOP ABORTION, etc. Recently driving on the Baltimore Beltway, I saw this I.T. bumper sticker: END USER...

Software intellectual property ... protection alternatives.
July 1, 1995... Unlike any other creation, the law allows developers to protect their software in different ways: as a trade secret, with a copyright, or as a patent. This article explains the advantages and the disadvantages of these alternatives. It then...

Of course I'm ethical! (improving corporate ethics)
July 1, 1995... Ethics is the buzzword of the future. But do we really understand what is required of us to become ethical managers? This article suggests techiques that will help sustain ethical leadership, and increase the ethics level of employees....

Electronic contracts - law and technology.
July 1, 1995... At the time of the creation of the original Statute of Frauds in 1677 and its adaptation in a host of states of the United States, novel technology such as E-mail, facsimile transmissions, and EDI were unthought of. This column briefly...