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Kallman, Ernest
Bentley College
Waltham, Massachusetts
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Measuring the value of information technology
Hares J., Royle D., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994. Type: Book (9780471943075)
The authors present a structured method for measuring the financial value of a project, particularly an information technology (IT) project. Theirs is a comprehensive approach that includes the cost/benefit analysis (CBA) we are all fa...
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Feb 1 1996 |
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Business information systems (5th ed.)
Clifton H., Sutcliffe A., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1994. Type: Book (9780131079700)
Although significant improvements have been made since the previous edition of this book [1], much remains the same. This book is published in the UK and written for British audiences. Like the previous editions, it uses British terms ...
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Apr 1 1995 |
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Practical systems analysis
Hipperson R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992. Type: Book (9780136896883)
The publisher’s practitioner series is aimed at practicing computer professionals. In this case, however, the aim is at two targets. In the preface, the author claims to be targeting users and managers so that they can unders...
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May 1 1994 |
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Accelerated systems development
Folkes S., Stubenvoll S., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992. Type: Book (9780130060730)
The authors take a practical, practitioner-oriented look at a number of techniques for improving the way information systems are built. Their objective is to demonstrate how low-risk, high-quality systems can be developed rapidly. The ...
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Jul 1 1993 |
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Business data systems
Clifton H., Prentice Hall International (UK) Ltd., Hertfordshire, UK, 1990. Type: Book (9780130916952)
A number of problems, not the least of which is its 1990 copyright, plague this book. The author has also failed to include or deal adequately with many topics that were current and vital in 1990 and before. The most notable omission i...
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Sep 1 1992 |
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Developing client/server applications
Inmon W. (ed), QED Information Sciences, Inc., Wellesley, MA, 1991. Type: Book (9780894353895)
The objective of this book is admirable--to counter, as the author says, the offhand approach to building client/server systems. As he points out in the preface, such systems are deceptively simple in appearance but have the p...
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Jun 1 1992 |
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Joint application design
August J., Yourdon Press, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1991. Type: Book (9780135082355)
Though Joint Application Design (JAD) was developed by IBM in 1977, it is still a viable methodology. One would expect its use to be more pervasive, since its application is straightforward and its results evident. Like many systems de...
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Dec 1 1991 |
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Auditing software development: a manual with case studies
Vallabhaneni S., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1990. Type: Book (9789780471520887)
The author is obviously a knowledgeable, practical, realistic practitioner who has experienced most of what he writes about. He rightly focuses on what may be the single most important problem in software development today: the inabili...
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Apr 1 1991 |
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Measuring the value of information systems
Carlson W., McNurlin B., 1989. Type: Book
This special report on the current state of the art in measuring the value of information systems (IS) is by two writers for the respected magazine I/S Analyzer. Their purpose, and the purpose of IS measurement, is to help peopl...
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Oct 1 1990 |
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Information strategy and economics
Parker M., Trainor H., Benson R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989. Type: Book (9780134649016)
This book is a well-written, state-of-the-art, detailed, and comprehensive explanation of and guide to a set of methodologies designed to link business objectives to future information systems, that is, to connect corporate and IS stra...
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May 1 1990 |
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