This article looks at an integrated and company‐wide decision support project and examines considerations such as the type of system to use, the characteristics it must exhibit and how to justify a substantial investment.

There are two major organisational issues to be resolved with computer‐based information systems (CBIS): who is to be responsible for CBIS, and how is the systems function itself to be organised? The practical implementation of an internal reorganisation of the systems function within...

The article examines the concepts upon which the Information Centre (IC) is based, and the practical benefits of implementation to IDV (UK) Ltd. It goes on to look at all implications of implementation including the costs of hardware, software and personnel, and the organisational and cultural...

A trend originating in the United States, and now migrating to Europe, is for chief executives of the larger organisations, and their close colleagues, to be provided with Executive Support Systems. These are desk‐top computers which provide an instant information overview of their companies,...

Managers responsible for personal data held on computer need to be aware of and comply with the terms of the Data Protection Act 1984. Registration and compliance with the eight data protection principles are essential requirements. The role of the Registrar in ensuring enforcement of the Act is...

Reports the results of a recent study of marketing and information systems (IS) managers about the importance of telecommunications in their positions and the quality of their training in telecommunications. Surprisingly, the marketing managers rated the importance of the 30 telecommunications...

Enterprise portal is a type of new information system that can help companies and their employees to manage, share, and use previously disparate information. There are more than 60 vendors that are offering corporate portal solutions. With so many vendors, selecting the right one can be a...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the influence of organization factors on the effectiveness of implementing BS7799, an information security management (ISM) standard. Design/methodology/approach – Based on literature review, a research model was formulated by extracting the antecedents...

The views of 25 chief executive officers and their information systems executives on the utility of information systems in their organizations were examined. A gap was detected between these two groups of executives with regard to their satisfaction with information systems and those who run...

Addresses the need for re‐engineering information systems (IS) in a rapidly changing environment, and the urgency of doing this to meet current and future needs of organizations whose existence is dependent on coping with rapidly changing requirements. Implicit in this view is the need for...