Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 100 Issue 7

Adoption of Internet shopping: the role of consumer innovativeness

Alka Varma Citrin, David E. Sprott, Steven N. Silverman, Donald E. Stem

The projected sales potential for Internet commerce indicates that businesses must understand those consumer characteristics that will influence consumer adoption of this medium…

Converting computer‐integrated manufacturing into an intelligent information system by combining CIM with concurrent engineering and knowledge management

Biren Prasad

Some industrial organizations using computer‐integrated manufacturing (CIM) for managing intelligent product and process data during a concurrent processing are facing acute…

An expert system for new product development projects

R. Balachandra

New product development (NPD) project studies have attempted to identify a common set of factors that will indicate whether a NPD project will succeed or fail. A recent study has…

Perennial management data systems issues in US manufacturing firms

Arthur H. Gilbert, Roger Alan Pick, Sidne Gail Ward

Based on a survey of manufacturing firms, with a questionnaire based on issues identified repeatedly in earlier studies, this paper details the most important information systems…

Implementing an industrial continuous improvement system: a knowledge management case study

Alan J. Beckett, Charles E.R. Wainwright, David Bance

Describes the practical application, in an industrial setting, of an information system designed to support continuous improvements. This system, based on a quality monitoring…