Logistics Information Management: Volume 5 Issue 4
Table of contents
Corporate Information, EDI and Logistics
Andy Bytheway, Ashley BraganzaExplores the business implications for electronic data interchange(EDI) in logistics using techniques highlighted by the Cranfield Schoolof Management′s enterprise model. Develops…
Environmental Management Systems: Developing an IT Strategy
Roger BagnallThe sources of pressure on an organization to improve themanagement of its environmental performance are many and increasing.They all demand increasing amounts and types of…
Electronic Trading in Europe
Ralph ColeStates that the introduction of a Single European Market will bringmore competition for customers. Suggests that electronic trading (ET) isthe key to survival because of the…
Chief Information Officers: Organizational Control and Company Characteristics
Zeinab A. KarakeUsing a sample of 198 Fortune 500 companies, explores thedifferential effects of a number of characteristics, grounded in a broadagency theory framework, on the decision to create…
The Virtual Corporation: An IT Challenge
Paul R. GambleDiscusses the idea that the potential for change which machinesrepresent for organizations allows people to change themselves –with reference to a recent MIT study emphasizing…
The Challenge of Managing People
Matthew HindProposes that the type of staff (flexible, creative,individualistic) responsible for IT successes of the 1980s may not behappy in the industry of the 1990s which will require…
BT′s Information Warehouse
Bob FerrantDescribes BT′s concept of an Information Warehouse, which differsfrom the more usual one of a large extract database. Highlights theobjectives of the system strategy and examines…