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Information_Systems

By Richard Watson

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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Being a Systems Innovator
- Being a systems innovator
- Systems innovators are designers
- Innovations are new answers to problems
- Innovations are also reactions to change
- Exciting times for systems innovators
- General insights into human (and information) systems
- General implications for a systems innovator
- How can I innovate?
- What do innovations achieve?
- Innovations achieve new products and profits
- Innovations increase effectiveness
2. Achieving Efficiency and Effectiveness through Systems
- Introduction
- What is an information system?
- IT is not information system
- The four components of an information system
- Effectiveness
3. Achieving efficiency and effectiveness through systems design
- Introduction
- Development process: from idea to detailed instructions
- Issues
- Overall development strategy
- Requirements
- Architecture
- Design
- Code
- Test
- Maintain
4. Business process modeling and process management
- Understanding the key steps of process management
- What is a process and what are the different types of processes?
- Process orientation as prerequisite for process management
- What is business process modeling and what is it good for?
- Modeling with ePK
- Software for process modeling and process support
- Process analysis and the benchmarking of processes
- A roadmap to process management
5. Information systems methodologies
- Introduction
- Selecting a Methodology
- Quality Selection criteria of Methodologies
- Methodologies Misuse
6. Implementing systems
- Introduction
- Demand for Knowledge Harvesting
- Formalizing the Knowledge Harvesting Process
- Current Practices in Knowledge Harvesting
- Bridge Building
- Recommendations
7. How hardware and software contribute to efficiency and effectiveness
- Hardware progress
- Progress in electronic technology
- Progress in storage technology
- Progress in communication technology
- Software progress
- Batch processing
- Time sharing
- Personal computers
- Local area networks
- Wide area networks – the Internet
- Open source software
- User supplied content
- Composite applications
- Software as a service
- Mobile, portable and location-aware applications
- The long tail
- Collaboration support applications
- Will the progress continue?
- Bumps in the information technology road
- Capacity to handle video traffic
- Data center capacity and electric power
- Inequity
- Vested interests can impede progress
- Intellectual property restrictions
- Security and privacy
8. Utilizing Data for Efficiency and Effectiveness
- Introduction67
- Organizational decision making
- Decision making: systems view
- Using data to improve decision making
9. Managing data for efficiency
- Introduction and Data Modeling
- Topics covered
- The Role of Data Management Technologies in Achieving Organizational Efficiencies
- Representing reality through data management68
- What are data?
- Information and meaning
- Knowledge
- Data versus Reality
- Granularity
- Identity
- Assigning values
- Derived data values
- Representing composite entities
- Relationships
- Meta-data
10. Opportunities in the Network Age
- Introduction
- Traditional strategy and killer applications
- The Five New Forces
- How the New Five Forces Work In Industries and Markets
11. Opportunities in business to business systems
- What is integration and why is it important?
- History of B2B systems
- What is a B2B system?
- B2B technologies
- Challenges for B2B adoption
- Buyer Issues
- Supplier issues
- Opportunities: New business models enabled by B2B systems
- Future of B2B systems
12. Opportunities in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
- How hardware, networking and software technologies affect file sharing
- How Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Works
- Peer-to-Peer Impacts
- P2P and the Law of the Double-Edged Sword
13. Opportunities for new organizational forms
- What is an organization?
- Management and the Division of Labour
- What Do Managers Do?
- Development of information and communication technology
- An interim summary
- New Models of Organization
- Critique and Conclusions
14. Information Systems Security
- Background
- The Principles
- Conclusion
15. Avoiding information systems failures
- Managing the delivery of IS services: The role of IT infrastructure
- Defining what constitutes system failure: Confidentiality, integrity and availability
- Potential causes of systems failure
- Mitigating risk
16. Moving forward as a systems innovator
- Moving Forward as a Systems Innovator
- The Promise of Information Technology
- The Promise of Business
- The Challenges of Information Technology
- Some Resources for Systems Innovators

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