Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 99 Issue 6

Alignment of technology and information systems tasks: a Singapore perspective

Sim Kim Lau, Ang Yang Ang, Graham Winley

Technology can influence the nature of work performed by information systems and information technology professionals. This study aims to identify technologies and tasks performed…

Identifying future trends in information technology

Michael J. Savoie, Mahesh S. Raisinghani

Few information technology trends have received more attention from the industry than electronic (e‐) commerce – and considering the industry’s predisposition to hyperbole, that…

Recruiting and retaining scarce information technology talent: a focus group study

Diane Lockwood, A. Ansari

Notes that it has become fiercely competitive to recruit and retain information technology (IT) talent in today’s tight labor market. Cites two main reasons for IT skills…

Performance improvement. Part 2

Ian Millar

The series of articles focuses on the need to ignore the many acronym‐based initiatives and programmes that tend to drive business performance. The author recommends that people…

Assessing manufacturing performance: an advanced manufacturing technology portfolio perspective

Michael H. Small

Addresses the relationship between firm performance on 15 manufacturing attributes and the extensiveness of advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) portfolios that firms adopt…