Information Systems: A Management Perspective

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Chapter 1, The Challenge of Applying IT Successfully

The New Economy

Information Rules - A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

This is the web site for a book tries to distill the economic principles of information and networks into practical business strategies that executives can use in making intelligent decisions about their information assets. The home page contains links to interesting examples and themes from Information Rules. Many of these examples and themes are related to topics discussed throughout this textbook. A summary of important points is also available at the following web site: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/ideasatwork/shap_var3.html. Hal Varian's web site on the Information Economy contains additional information and links: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/
Taking the measure of the "new economy"
This is a Business Week review of three 1998 books about the new economy that are listed below. The first chapter of two of the books is available through the following links:
The virtual community business model
This is the first chapter of Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities, by John Hagel III and Arthur G. Armstrong, published by Harvard Business School Press in 1997. This chapter explains the five defining elements of the virtual community business model.
Twelve themes of the new economy
This article is the second chapter of Don Tapscott's 1996 book The Digital Economy. According to the author, the twelve themes are knowledge, digitization, virtualization, molecularization, integration/internetworking, disintermediation, convergence, innovation, prosumption (blurring gap between consumers and producers), immediacy, globalization, and discordance.
Nine principles of "webonomics"
This list of nine principles is from the book Webonomics: Nine essential principles for growing your business on the world wide web by Evan Schwartz.
Program for Research on the Information Economy
This site at the University of Michigan provides information on the differences of information goods and physical goods and those implications in the market economy.
Economics of Networks
This site is maintained by Prof. Nicholas Economides of NYU. In addition to numerous links to research papers, it contains a brief dictionary of terms related to network economics.
Informational Society Notes
These notes from Alfred Lorn Norman's University of Texas course called "Informational Society" provide a large number of links related to topics ranging from information technology to government and economics.
Encyclopedia of the New Economy
This site explains "new economy" terms ranging from adhocracy and "attention economy" to WTO and zero sum.
ISWORLD Net: Electronic Commerce Course Page
This site contains a large, but well organized group of references to a wide range of web sites exemplifying or explaining different aspects of electronic commerce.
New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly
"Twelve dependable principles for thriving in a turbulent world."
The Emerging Digital Economy
This April 1998 report produced for the U.S. Department of Commerce, presents both economic analysis and case studies that paint a picture of the importance of electronic commerce and information technologies to the economy as a whole and to individual sectors of the economy.

IT innovations in business and government

The Information Week 500

This annual report from InformationWeek presents stories analyzing innovative technology trends in 21 industries, as well as charts and profile information on each company in the listing.
IRS tax forms
IRS tax forms are available for downloading from this site. Before this site existed, it was necessary to request all but the most common tax forms by phone or mail, and the waiting time was usually at least a week.

Computer aided design

CompInfo-Computer Aided Design (CAD)

This extensive list of sites related to CAD includes other CAD sites, exhibitions, recent industry news, sample software and lists of CAD companies.

Globalization

Globalization Resource Center

CIO's Globalization Resource Center is a network of contacts and information about doing business in an IT-enabled, global economy. The site contains specific market and general international information.
Globalization cover story from InformationWeek
This Jan. 18, 1999 cover story includes articles about seeking end-to-end information systems, impacts of conversion to the euro, and how small enterprises are using IT to go international.

Obstacles when applying IT in the real world

Smarting Over Smartcards

http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16048.html
Visa, MasterCard, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Citibank said Tuesday they were pulling the plug on a 14-month pilot project in which approximately 100,000 smartcards were issued to Upper West Side residents to use at more than 600 local stores. Technically, the program was a success. Its main aim was to test whether Visa Cash and MasterCard's Mondex cards could both be processed by the same terminal. But the experiment angered merchants who found the system too cumbersome, and didn't excite consumers. (Another version of this story is used in one of the "additional cases" for chapter 1)
Y2K problem (intro)
Most of the Y2K links are listed under Chapter 13, but here is a list of potential Y2K problem dates. This shows that the Y2K problem is not totally concentrated around Jan. 1, 2000. Y2K concerns have become so widespread that they even earned a place in the jokes page of this web site.

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