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This guide focuses on the implementation and management of second-generation automated library systems. It advances knowledge of the field by describing the "migration path" of library automated systems. Specifically, the book is intended to give practical directions in procuring a replacement ...

This guide focuses on the implementation and management of second-generation automated library systems. It advances knowledge of the field by describing the "migration path" of library automated systems. Specifically, the book is intended to give practical directions in procuring a replacement library automated system. As such, the text reviews new approaches to library automation which rely on knowledge gained over the past two decades. In charting the procurement process, the book indicates how to migrate the library's database. It discusses state-of-the-art technology such as scanning and imaging devices, and provides descriptions and analyses of telecommunications and networking technology and issues.

This volume is a sequel to Information Management: The Strategic Dimension (OUP 1988), a book which was well received by managers and academics alike. In the last decade, the pervasiveness of information technology (IT) has brought about far-reaching changes in how many managers and specialists work ...

This volume is a sequel to Information Management: The Strategic Dimension (OUP 1988), a book which was well received by managers and academics alike. In the last decade, the pervasiveness of information technology (IT) has brought about far-reaching changes in how many managers and specialists work and, indeed, in how we conceptualize the organization. The correspondence between new organizational terminology and the language of IT demonstrates this -- networked, virtual and knowledge-based organizations, inter-organizational alliances, distributed organizations and groupware all being examples. For some, IT represents a solution to many organizational and operational problems (including the advocates of Business Process Re-engineering) and the most likely way to improve business performance and gain competitive advantage. At the same time, for many managers and organizations the reality is that the risks, costs, false trails and difficulties seem to outweigh any immediate tangible advantage. The purpose of this book is to take an informed, dispassionate and constructive look at the challenges of IT and to offer insight, analysis and guidance on the ever changing IT environment, focusing in particular on managerial and organizational issues. These include centralization versus decentralization, relations between users and specialists, managing the IS function, outsourcing versus internal capabilities, project management and systems implementation, and an assessment of Business Process Re-engineering at both the conceptual and empirical level. Section 1 looks at some of the organizational horizons made possible by information technology; the next section tackles some of the challenges that face organizations who want to exploit IT in innovative and strategic ways. Section 3 examines some of the eternal questions of how to organize the IS function. In Section Four the contributors look at various aspects of project management and systems implementation. The next section examines some contemporary management questions on the agendas of Chief Information officers and their IS departments. Michael Earl's postscript integrates the volume through the framework of 'organizational fit'. The book provides an authoritative overview and helpful diagnostics of current information management challenges by some of the leading information systems researchers in Europe and the USA. The volume will be essential reading for management students, consultants, and senior IT professionals. Hardback Sales Details Published: 28.03.96 First year sales: Total: 650, UK: 264, USA: 177, EUR: 76, JAP/Branch: 88, Other: 45 Life sales: 894

This book addresses the social and organizational dynamics that underlie recent technological and work developments within organizations often referred to as "virtual working." It goes beyond a mere description of this new work phenomenon in order to provide more rigorous ways of analyzing and ...

This book addresses the social and organizational dynamics that underlie recent technological and work developments within organizations often referred to as "virtual working." It goes beyond a mere description of this new work phenomenon in order to provide more rigorous ways of analyzing and understanding the issues raised. In addition to providing accounts of developments such as web-based enterprises and virtual teams, each contributor focuses on the employment of information technology to transcend the boundaries between and within organizations, and the consequences this has for social and organizational relations.

This is a volume of previously unpublished research studies that were conducted during the Management in the 1990s project at the Sloan School of MIT. It is a companion volume to the principal book of the project, The Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational ...

This is a volume of previously unpublished research studies that were conducted during the Management in the 1990s project at the Sloan School of MIT. It is a companion volume to the principal book of the project, The Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation. This book is organized into three sections: the IT Revolution; Strategic Options; and The Organization and Management Response. Authors of the studies are among the most prominent of the Sloan School people, including Eric Von Hippel, Edgar Schein, Michael Piore, Paul Osterman, and Thomas Kochan. There are introductions to the volume and to the sections.

How are the new electronic technologies affecting business here and abroad--indeed, the entire world economy--and what are the new business strategies that must emerge from these transformations? Economist, writer, and communications executive Maurice Estabrooks provides a readable, comprehensive ...

How are the new electronic technologies affecting business here and abroad--indeed, the entire world economy--and what are the new business strategies that must emerge from these transformations? Economist, writer, and communications executive Maurice Estabrooks provides a readable, comprehensive survey of how microchips, computers, and other innovations are reshaping the entire world of work--its cultures, organization, and economic systems. With insight and impeccable scholarship he provides concrete evidence of the emergence of artificially intelligent, cybernetic, network-based entities that are creating new links between business and technology itself, links that will profoundly affect the ways businesses create and implement their corporate survival and growth strategies.