This prescient, authoritative book is a vital reference for anyone concerned with harvesting, creating, distributing, or analyzing company information. HR executives and IT professionals will learn not only how to create the atlas to their company's universe but also how to define and assign the...

Organizations, management, and the networked enterprise -- Information systems in global business today -- Global e-business and collaboration -- Information systems, organizations, and strategy -- Ethical and social issues in information systems -- Information technology infrastructure -- It...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- In This Chapter -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Traditional Ways of Enabling BI -- 1.3 Three Generations of BI -- 1.4 How...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- 1. Changing Business Environments and Decision Support Systems -- Changing Business Environments -- Growing Information Flows -- New Organizational Structures and a New Distribution of...