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作者：APTE, U; SANKAR, CS; THAKUR, M; TURNER, JE
作者单位：Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要：This paper describes the experience of a large bank in designing and implementing an information systems strategy that is based on the concept of resuability. The design and implementation was performed in two stages: (1) building a prototype to investigate the feasibility and attractiveness of reusability concept for the bank; and (2) its subsequent implementation using a library of reusable entities and a programmer's workbench. The implementation experience confirmed that applying the reusa...
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作者：RICHARDSON, GL; JACKSON, BM; DICKSON, GW
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Star Enterprise is a joint venture partnership between Texaco Inc. and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. Created in 1988, it became fully operational on January 1, 1989. This new organization inherited staff, facilities, and information resources existing within Texaco Inc. at the time of formation. A significant opportunity for the new organization was to create a new Enterprise Information Technology Architecture to support business functions and management decision making. While this venture w...
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作者：RAILING, L; HOUSEL, T
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：A growing problem for many organizations is spiraling telecommunications costs coupled with the need to respond faster to changing market conditions. To handle such a situation, TRW's Space and Defense Sector management authorized a new integrated voice and data digital network for 20,000 employees located in 65 buildings. TRW's top management saw the network as an opportunity to integrate the company's islands of information, which were isolated within separate data networks. The project took...
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作者：WIGHTMAN, KR
摘要：This paper examines the major influences and events that led to the creation and implementation of Club Z, a very successful frequent buyer program, by Zellers Inc., a Canadian mass merchandiser and a division of the Hudson's Bay Company. While the paper describes this major retailer's innovation in the adaptation of computer technology to store-level marketing, it also analyzes some of the significant aspects of the Club Z implementation from an IS management perspective: how a champion emerg...
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作者：MOHAN, L; HOLSTEIN, WK; ADAMS, RB
摘要：Advances in the development of executive information systems (EIS) have predominantly occurred in the private sector, with far less progress taking place in the public sector. Surely, the need for EIS in the public sector exists. Despite problems of EIS development in the public sector, successful systems can be built. This paper explores the differences between public and private systems and describes an EIS developed for a large agency of the New York state government. The system is being us...
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作者：GROHOWSKI, R; MCGOFF, C; VOGEL, D; MARTZ, B; NUNAMAKER, J
作者单位：University of Arizona
摘要：Businesses of the future will rely more than ever on the work of teams. Making better use of the time teams spend in meetings will be a high priority, as will being able to adapt rapidly to change. Electronic meeting systems (EMS), which apply information technology to support the meeting process, can help accomplish these goals. This paper describes and discusses the implementation of EMS at IBM in an alliance with the University of Arizona. During the past three years, the project has grown ...
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作者：LINDSEY, D; CHENEY, PH; KASPER, GM; IVES, B
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; Southern Methodist University
摘要：This paper describes the strategic use of information technology by the Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA). TELCOT, a computer-based system developed by PCCA, provides cotton traders with functions much like those available to NYSE or AMEX traders. TELCOT transformed PCCA from a small cotton merchant to a major cotton broker. Handling 115,000 to 240,000 computer transactions per day, TELCOT provides over 20,000 cotton producers, 40 buyers, and 200 gin operators with an electronic mar...
