Information, Systems and Information Systems making sense of the field Peter Checkland and Sue Holwell Lancaster University, UK Science-based technology helps to shape our lives, and no technology is more powerful in this respect than that associated with information. But the emerging linked fields of information systems and information technology are still in a very confused state. There is a torrent of technical developments but the concepts which bring structure to the field and make sense of it lag behind. This book seeks to dispel that confusion, and aims to make sense of IS and IT as a whole. Conventional theory bears little relation to the experience most people have with computer-based systems in organizations. Based on real-world experiences in both the private and public sectors, this book from Peter Checkland and Sue Holwell tackles the subject afresh. Information, Systems and Information Systems provides a practice-based approach to the thinking needed to underpin provision of information support in organizations. Starting from fundamentals, the book develops a coherent account of the field. The book is thus a work of conceptual cleansing. It presents a well-argued and tested account of IS and IT which is both holistic and coherent. The sense-making models which emerge can encompass any particular assumptions about the nature of organizational reality and management, whether 'hard' functionalist or 'soft' interpretive ones, though the authors' sympathies are with the latter.
Covert channels. These are hidden (covert) ways of passing information against organizational policy. There are two main types of covert channels: timing (signaling from one system to another) and storage (the storing of data in an ...
Information Systems and Information Technology Heikki Topi, Allen Tucker. Accounting and auditing standards with a medium or high impact upon ITAF (IT assurance framework) COBIT It processes relevant to IS audit nancial IS audit Reduced ...
This book is composed of a selection of articles from The 2021 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'21), held online between 30 and 31 of March and 1 and 2 of April 2021 at Hangra de Heroismo, Terceira Island, ...
This text takes students where IT lives-in today's businesses and in our daily lives while helping students understand how valuable information technology is to their future careers.
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The text introduces the challenges and risks of computer crimes, hacking, and cyberterrorism. It also presents some of the most current research on virtual communities, global IS work solutions, and social networking.
Are you interested in computers or want an easy to read refresher? This book will provide you with a solid yet simple overview on common topics with short quizzes to help consolidate the presented information.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems, CISIS 2011, held in Torremolinos-Málaga, in June 2011 as a satellite event of IWANN 2011, ...
The first text in critical information systems for organizations and management.
This guide unravels the mysteries of HIS by breaking these technologies down to their component parts and providing a clear and reader-friendly account of the concepts involved.