Journal of Systems Management articles from September 1994

Journal of Systems Management archives from September 1994

Anytime, anywhere - the flexible networking environment of wireless LANs. (local area networks) (Cutting Edge)
September 1, 1994... We are now at the beginning of the "anytime, anywhere" communications era, which essentially translates to wireless communications among people and computerized devices. Although existing wired computer networks are rapidly integrating the...

What is neural network software? (Cutting Edge)
September 1, 1994... Neural network computer programs are a distinct class of software that fall into the broader category of artificial intelligence. This type of software is described by the National Research Council as a major tool in reaching an understanding of...

Neural networks and their applications in marketing management. (Cutting Edge)
September 1, 1994... Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are distributed and parallel information processing system that simulate the processing capabilities of the brain. They have the ability to learn complex patterns of information and generalize the learned...

An on-line system for aircraft maintenance. (Techniques)
September 1, 1994... The Planning & Control System employs the concept of on-line allocation of manpower for different trades and job types according to known manpower requirement profiles. This concept is not limited to the aircraft maintenance industry, and can...

Selecting an appropriate client/server application.
September 1, 1994... This is the ninth in a series of columns on Client/Server Architectures. The industry press has been full of stories about Client/Server technology and Client/Server projects. Some of the articles tell of wondrous successes, of how companies...

Information systems mis-development: the case of StarDoc. (information system) (Case Study)
September 1, 1994... The IS literature is replete with success stories. Rarely do we read about information systems that failed. Here unfolds the story of a failure case. A shipping information system was developed for a joint venture of two highly successful...

Job skills & business applications in mid-range computing sites. (Professional Development)
September 1, 1994... The high demand MIS professional employment world is rapidly changing. Although MIS professionals have been reported to be on a hot track by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, daily headlines remind us all that corporate re-engineering is erasing...

Critical success factors to organizational change. (Retooling: New Skills and Structures for Changing Workplace Technology)
September 1, 1994... IS is likely to encounter a great deal of resistance when it introduces change in an organization, especially in the way people go about their daily routine (retooling). As we all know, people can make a failure out of even the best system design...