Annals of cases on information technology. Volume 6 /

Annals of Cases on Information Technology provides a collection of case studies focusing on IT implementation in organizations. The cases included in Volume VI describe successful projects and offer advice on how to achieve these best practices. They also look at IT project failures and describe ste...

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Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Group Author: Khosrowpour, Mehdi, 1951- (Editor)
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pa. :
Publication Dates: 2004.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Cases on information technology, no. 6
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Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59140-259-6
Summary: Annals of Cases on Information Technology provides a collection of case studies focusing on IT implementation in organizations. The cases included in Volume VI describe successful projects and offer advice on how to achieve these best practices. They also look at IT project failures and describe steps to avoid pitfalls in the path to successful IT utilization. The organizations described in this book represent small businesses, educational institutions, public and private corporations and describe may aspects of IT implementation including, e-commerce endeavors, intelligent technologies, enterprise resource planning and many other facets of emerging IT utilization.
Carrier Form: PDFs (621 pages) : illustrations.
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: HD30
CLC: C931.6
Contents: 1. The rise and fall of a Dot-Com / Judy E. Scott -- 2. Is this pilot test over? / Janis L. Gogan, Ulric J. Gelinas Jr., Ashok Rao -- 3. eBay, Inc. / Anthony E. D'Andrea, Dorothy Dologite, Robert J. Mockler, Marc E. Gartenfeld -- 4. An application within the plan for E-government / Mariagrazia Fugini, Mario Mezzanzanica -- 5. Enterprise information portals / Wita Wojtkowski, Marshall Major -- 6. Investing in an energy management system / Mark R. Nelson, John F. Mikullitz, Adrienne S. Frank, John A.. Westney -- 7. Deutsche Bank / Hauke Heier, Hans P. Borgman -- 8. Moving up the mobile commerce value chain / Martin Fahy, Joseph Feller, Pat Finnegan, Ciaran Murphy -- 9. A DSS model that aligns business strategy and business structure with advanced information technology / Petros Theodorou -- 10. Building automation into existing business processes / David Paper, Wai Mok, James Rodger -- 11. The importance of a comprehensive adoption decision in the presence of perceived opportunities - the test results case / Pankaj Bagri, L. S. Murty, T. R. Madanmohan, Rajendra K. Bandi -- 12. Using an Intranet portal, uniform accounting charts and activity based accounting to assist entrepreneural nonprofit program management / John Sacco, Elizabeth Strait -- 13. Palisade Systems / Sujata Mahanti, Prabdeep Bajwa, Troy J. Strader, Charles B. Shrader -- 14. Towards a knowledge-sharing organization / V. P. Kochikar, J. K. Suresh --
15. Technological modernization of Peru's public registries / Antonio Diaz-Andrade, Martin Santana-Ormeno -- 16. Developing a homegrown course management system - community/course, action/interaction management system (CAMS) / Brian G. Mackie, Norbert L. Ziemer, Nancy L. Russo, Wayne E. Mackie -- 17. Implementation of a network print management system / George Kelley, Elizabeth A. Regan, C. Stephen Hunt -- 18. The rise and fall of CyberGold.com / John E. Peltier, Michael J. Gallivan -- 19. Improving PC services at Oshkosh Truck Corporation / Jakob Holden Iversen, Michael A. Eierman, George C. Philip -- 20. Implementation of a personnel management system "Beaufort" / Tatyana V. Bondarouk -- 21. Towards citizen-centered local e-government - the case of the city of Tampere / Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko -- 22. Project Mi-Net - an inter-organizational e-business adoption study / Pankaj Bagri, L. S. Murty, T. R. Madanmohan, Rajendra K. Bandi -- 23. Call to action / William S. Lightfoot -- 24. Eliciting the requirements for intelligent systems in law enforcement / Jeffrey L. Goldberg, Sanjeev Kapoor, Corey Wineman, William Carney, Dorothy Dologite -- 25. Emergency / Darren Dalcher -- 26. Challenges in the adoption of information technology at Sunrise Industries / Monideepa Tarafdar, Sanjiv D. Vaidya -- 27. ERP selection at AmBuildPro / Margaret Sklar, Matthew Breneman, Ira Yermish -- 28. Workflow-supported invoice management / Karl R. Lang --
29. Implementing automated testing / Hareton Leung, Keith Chan -- 30. A case study of IT chargeback in a government agency / Dana Edberg, William L. Kuechler -- 31. The elusive last mile to the Internet / V. Sridhar, Piyush Jain -- 32. Library networking of the Universidad de Oriente / Abul K. Bashirullah -- 33. Corporate collapse and IT governance within the Australian airlines industry / Simpson Poon, Catherine Hardy, Peter Adams -- 34. Public sector data management in a developing economy / Wai K. Law -- 35. Outsourcing systems management / Raymond Papp -- 36. Implementing software metrics at a telecommunications company - a case study / David I. Heimann.