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Chapter 2, Basic Concepts for Understanding Systems
- Systems Analysis Tools and Techniques
- This site from the Netherlands illustrates a wide range of systems analysis and design tools, thereby showing that the the WCA method is only one of many possible tools that might be used in a particular project.
- Fifth Discipline Handbook
- This site contains a number of links related to thinking about organizations and processes as systems. It is the Web site for the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, a book of "strategies and tools for building the Learning organization.". The Fieldbook authors set up this web site, as not just an extension of that book, but as an ongoing way to more effectively serve the "worldwide community of learning organization practitioners."
- Systems Analysis Web sites
- This page links to many sites related to systems analysis
- Tutorial on Object Oriented Systems Analysis
- This hypertext tutorial presents a different, but very important starting point for thinking about systems. This tutorial will be referenced again as a link for Chapter 9, which discusses software and programming.
- Methodology.org: Methods, Tools, Techniques
- This site contains many articles about different methodologies for building information systems.
- Systems Thinking Practice
- This site from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland is "a joint effort to create a unique, interactive Yellow Pages directory to Systems Thinking and related activities on the Web." Topics covered include organization development, social sciences, futures research, hard modeling, soft modeling, economics, etc.
- Systems analysis links
- These links were compiled by Vicki Sauter of the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
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President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
- This site lists different areas of critical national infrastructure and provides access to a report about protecting the nation's infrastructure
- National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols
- "The National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium is a team of organizations that has entered into a cooperative development agreement with the U.S. Government to develop open industry software protocols that will make it possible for manufacturers and their suppliers to effectively inter-operate as if they were part of the same enterprise."
- Harvard Information Infrastructure Project
- The HIIP has provided a neutral, interdisciplinary forum for addressing a wide range of emerging policy issues relating to information infrastructure, its development, use, and growth. The HIIP convenes experts from government, industry, and academia and draws on the perspectives and insights of policy-makers, managers, economists, lawyers, political scientists, and technologists in pursuit of its mission to advance the understanding of emerging issues related to the development of information infrastructure.
- Information Policy & Infrastructure
- This site from Brint contains numerous papers, articles, reports, and speeches.
- Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF)
- The White House formed the Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) to articulate and implement the Administration's vision for the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Working together with the private sector, the participating Federal agencies will develop comprehensive technology, telecommunications, and information policies and promote applications that best meet the needs of both the agencies and the country.
- Academic infrastructure: Requiring students to own computers
- This set of links was produced through Educause to help universities understand infrastructure issues related to educational computing.
- This page links to examples of the types of policies and procedures that form part of the context within which information systems operate.
- Communication, Culture, and Technology - Georgetown University
- This page contains links to a variety of resources, some of which involve cultural issues related to the context surrounding information systems.
- Virtual-organization.net
- The trend toward virtual organzations is an important part of today's business context. This site contains links to examples and research projects.
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The Information Technology Interaction model by Silver, Markus, and Beath
- A September 1995 MIS Quarterly issue included an article entitled "The Information Technology Interaction Model: A Foundation for the MBA Core Course," co-authored by Mark Silver, M. Lynne Markus, and Cynthia Mathis Beath. (See the part of this web site called comparison with other frameworks for a brief comparison of the ITI model with the WCA approach.)
- Information system effectiveness home page- ISWorld Net
- This site identifies and provides abstracts for articles related to six aspects of information system effectiveness that were identified in "Information System Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable," by William H. DeLone and Ephraim R. McLean. This article appeared in Vol. 3, No. 1 of Information Systems Research (March 1992). As illustrated in a diagram representing the "IS success model," the six variables are system quality, information quality, information use, user satisfaction, individual impact, and organizational impact. (See the part of this web site called comparison with other frameworks for a brief comparison of the IS success model with the WCA approach.)
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