Information Management & Computer Security: Volume 1 Issue 2

A Taxonomy of Executive Information Systems: Let the 4 Cs Penetrate the Fog

C. Edwards, J.W. Peppard

Develops a classification of executive information systems. (EIS).EIS implementations cluster into four distinct groups, called the 4 Cs:Conglomerate; control and monitoring;…

Information: The Seventh Management Function?

K.G.B. Bakewell

Contends that information should be added to the six managementfunctions enunciated by Henri Fayol in 1916. Considers some problems ofinformation: the awareness problem;…

The 1992 Profile of Computer Abuse in Australia: Part 2

Vic Kamay, Tony Adams

Analyses some of the 497 cases of computer abuse recorded by theAustralian Computer Abuse Research Bureau, since its inception in 1978.Features include perpetrators and the law…

Does IT Matter When Companies Merge?

Ross Hamilton

A group of financial services companies which had recently mergedwere questioned to determine how differences in IT systems affectedmerger implementation. Results showed that all…

Software Auditing: Effectively Combating the Five Deadly Sins

Philip Berner

There is a far greater risk to business today than the conventionalseven deadly sins, of avarice, gluttony and so on. The risk is tied upin what the Federation Against Software…

Current IS Practices within UK‐based Organizations

Christine Fidler, Simon Rogerson, Nicola Spiers

The evolving information systems (IS) field has been the subject ofmuch research and observation in recent years. Much of the work has beenUS based. By contrast, this empirical…

Business Continuity Planning in a Distributed Downsized Environment

Kevin J. Fitzgerald

Discusses the change in business continuity planning whencentralized mainframe computing environments are replaced bydecentralized server/workstation/minicomputer…