Ten Common Information Systems Mistakes

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Lincoln T. , Managing Information Systems for Profit, London: John Wiley & Sons, 1990.

Earl M. , ‘Putting IT in its place: a polemic for the nineties’, Journal of Information Technology, September 1992.

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Prahalad C. Hamel G. , ‘The Core Competence of the Corporation’, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1990.

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Handy C. , The Age of Unreason, Arrow Books, p. 4, 1990.

Stair R. , Principles of Information Systems - A Managerial Approach, Boston: Boyde & Fraser, 1992.

Remenyi D. , Information Management Case Studies, London: Pitmans Publishing, 1993.

Handy , op cit.

Wetherbe D. and Cooke D. , ‘Executive Information Requirements: Getting it Right’, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 1991.

Shea K. , ‘The Right ESS for the Job-Getting it Right the First Time’, Computerworld, Vol. 23, No. 28, 10 July 1990.

O'Connell S. , ‘Pinpoint your system needs’, HR Magazine, Vol. 38, Issue 4, April 1993.

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Littlechild J. , ‘Pouncing on perfect customers’, Canadian Banker, Vol. 100, Issue 3, June 1993.

Newquist H. , ‘Of Change and the Tortoise’, Computerworld, Vol. 22, No. 45, 7 November 1988.

Zuboff S. , In the Age of the Smart Machine, Harper Collins, 1986.

Earl, op. cit.

Strassman, 1990, op. cit.

Romei L. , ‘Charting a road map to success’, Managing Office Technology, Vol. 39, Issue 6, June 1994.

Norman R. Corbitt G. Butler M. and McElroy D. CASE Technology Transfer’, Journal of Systems Management, May 1989.

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Wood J. and Silver D. Joint Application Design, John Wiley & Son, 1989.

Martinez E. , ‘Avoiding large scale information systems project failures: The importance of fundamentals’, Project Management Journal, Vol. 5 Issue 2, June 1994.

Strassman P. , ‘Runaway Computer Projects’, Across the Board, Vol. 28, No 4, April 1991.

Blandon M. and Shreeve G. ‘Whose Hand on the Wheel?’, Banker, Vol. 140, No. 767, January 1990.

McComb D. , and Smith J. , ‘Systems Project Failure: The Heuristics of Risk’, Journal of Insformation Systems Management, Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter 1991.

Hammer M. , ‘Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate’, Harvard Business Review, July/August, 1990.

Hammer M. & Champy J. , Reengineering the Corporation - A Manifesto for Business Revolution, Harper Collins, 1993, p. 32.

Davenport T. , Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology, Harvard Business School Press, 1993.

Hammer , and Champy op cit.

Davenport , op. cit.

Prager K. and Overholt M. , ‘How to create a changed organisation’, Information Systems Management, Vol. 11, Issue 3, Summer 1994.

Szajna B. and Scamell R. , ‘The effects of information systems user expectations on their performance and perceptions’, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 4, December 1993.

Remenyi , 1993, op. cit.

Strassman , 1990, op. cit.

Strassman P. , ‘Reengineering: An Emetic in a Perfume Bottle’, Computerworld, 1993.

Townsend R. , Further up the Organisation, Now York: Knopf, 1984.

Deckle J. , ‘The Corporate Integration of Data processing’, Business, April/June 1986.

Butler M. , cited in Lincoln, T., Managing Information Systems for Profit, John Wiley & Sons, 1980.

Palmer C. A. , ‘Bridge So Far’, National Computer Centre, 1990.

Grindley K. , Managing IT at Board Level - The Hidden Agenda Exposed, London: Pitmans, 1991.

Ibid.

Dooley R. , ‘Critical Issues in Information Systems Management’, I/S Analyser, 1991.

Shah H. Dingly S. and Golder P. , ‘Bridging the culture gap between users and developers’, Journal of Systems Management, Vol. 45, Issue 7, July 1994.

Grindley , op. cit.

Remenyi , 1993, op. cit.

Porter M. , Competitive Strategy-Techniques for Analysing Industries and Competitors, The Free Press, 1985.

Remenyi D. , Increase Profits with Strategic Information Systems, NCC Blackwell, 1988.

Wiseman C. , Strategy and Computers - Information Systems as Competitive Weapons, Irwin: Dow-Jones, 1988.

Remenyi D. , Strategic Information Systems, Development and Implementation Case Studies, NCC Blackwell, 1990.

Williams D. and Cooke D. , ‘Aligning technology and business goals’, Best's Review, Vol. 95, Issue 5, September 1994.

Green A. , ‘Bring Planning Down to Earth’, Journal of Information Systems Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, Summer 1991.

Remenyi , 1991, op. cit.