Journal of Systems Management articles from June 1994

Journal of Systems Management archives from June 1994

Is global outsourcing diminishing the prospects for American programmers? (US software industry) (Industry Overview)
June 1, 1994... Many countries with a pool of highly skilled IS professionals are providing outsourcing services to these firms at significantly lower labor costs than their U.S. competitors. The growing use of these offshore vendors is starting to cause some...

When to replace the legacy system. (Systems Notes)
June 1, 1994... Dear Mike How do you know when to replace an existing, or legacy system? The same way you know how to do anything else in Information Systems: reckon the costs of continuing what you are doing over "X" years, and compare that with the cost of...

The impact of CASE: can it achieve critical success factors? (computer-aided software engineering)
June 1, 1994... Even with its many benefits, most organizations have found it difficult to implement CASE. Some of the obstacles include cost, resistance by systems developers, and unacceptable learning curves. Resistance by systems developers remains an issue...

Stop wasting training dollars: train for outcomes, not outputs. (information resources management) (Retooling: New Skills & Structures for Changing Workplace Technology)
June 1, 1994... Too many IS organizations are wasting their training dollars. They are training people who don't need training either because they have no immediate use for it or it's training in the wrong thing. Businesses today are changing rapidly. With...

No job too. (client/server computing) (Client/Server Strategies: Client/Server Architectures, Part 6)
June 1, 1994... This is the sixth in a series of columns on Client/Server Architectures. Client/server computing has a number of natural advantages, compared to mainframes, or minicomputers, or midranges, or stand-alone PCs. It's a good way to use a mixture...

Communicating in times of change. (communication in management)
June 1, 1994... (This article is a synopsis of Peter de Jager's seminar presentation.) Change is not so much about what the change will bring us as it is about how much the change will cause us to lose. The effective management of Change has become an...

Controlling copyright infringements of intellectual property: the case of computer software. (part one)
June 1, 1994... This is the first of a two-part series. Part One reviews the present status of intellectual property theft and global software piracy, discusses the dilemma of securing proprietary knowledge using legal means, and reviews the activities of BSA...

IS development: marketing applications move to the forefront. (information systems)
June 1, 1994... Information systems today often emphasize marketing applications over more traditional accounting/financial applications, reflecting growing emphasis on consumer relations. A recent survey of IS managers reveals many organizations are devoting...