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Information Systems: A Management Perspective

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Chapter 5, Communication, Decision Making, and Different Types of Information Systems

Communication
Decision Making
Groupware
Intranet/Extranet
Knowledge Management
Management and Executive Information Systems
Decision Support Systems
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
ERP and supply chain

Communication
The Elements of Style by William Strunk: This short, 1918 writer's manual is still widely used.
Gooddocuments.com: Writing good documents for on screen environments: This site discusses how to create good business documents in the linked, on-screen environment of Intranets and the Internet. It also contains many useful links for additional viewpoints.
Decision Making
Decision Analysis Society: The web site of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS includes a lexicon of decision making terms, lists of journals and references, lists of software vendors, and links to related sites.
Links from the Society for Judgment and Decision Making: These links to academic and commercial sites are related to theories of decision making.
Groupware
Groupware central: Groupware Central, a part of ISWorld, maintained by the University of Georgia, provides information to researchers, developers and users of groupware.
Intranet/Extranet
Brint page on Intranets: Comprehensive listing of intranet resouces and papers, some of which are well annotated.
CIO Intranet Research Center: Numerous articles and cases related to intranets.
The Complete Intranet Resource: Many useful articles, cases, and links related to intranets
Extranet - a reference page: This page provides links to articles, cases, and other links related to extranets.
Extranet and VPN: This page from the Mining Company provides useful background information.
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management Server at the University of Texas: This site provides links to other knowledge management sites, links to articles about knowledge management, and interesting knowledge management cases.
Brint Virtual Library on Knowledge Management: This site provides a large number of articles and links.
Sveiby's knowledge management library: This site contains a good explanation of different views of the basics of knowledge management. For example it differentiates between KM as a management of information issue vs. KM as a management of people issue
Kentucky Initiative for Knowledge Management (KIKM): An extensive knowledge management site focusing on academic research.
Management and Executive Information Systems
Gentia Software's balanced scorecard products: Gentia Software sells a family of software products based on the "balanced scorecard," which says that a company's top management should monitor performance indicators in four areas: financial, internal operations, customers, and innovation and learning.
Management Information Systems Research: This Brint site contains an extensive listing of articles, papers and references Management Information Systems.
Decision Support Systems
DSS resources: This thorough DSS resources site was developed by Daniel Power of Northern Iowa University. Among other things it links to DSS articles, DSS vendors, and DSS examples on the web.
DSS -Related Sites: Large list of sites related to DSS, expert systems and artificial intelligence, and knowledge management.
DSS Links Index for Vicki Sauter's DSS text: This index organizes numerous links around chapters of a DSS text.
DSS Web Links: From Monash University in Australia.
Alta Plana: Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Site: This site includes a glossary of OLAP terms, links to firms sellling OLAP software, links to white papers and other sites related to data warehousing, DSS, and EIS.
OLAP Report: Provides links to vendors in the OLAP market.
Data Mining and Data Warehousing
The Data Warehousing Institute: This extensive site on data warehousing provides links to a number of examples, white papers, tips, and other information about data warehousing.
The Data Mine: The Data Mine provides links to papers, vendors, software, and sites related to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
KDNuggets Directory of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources: This includes a newsletter plus links to companies providing data mining products, including many products for industry-specific problems.
Data Warehousing: In addition to articles and links, this site provides a good overview of data warehousing concepts.
Datamation's Datamining Site: This site contains a number of useful articles and links.
Data Warehousing Information Center: This site provides numerous references to vendors and articles.
QUEST Data Mining Project at IBM: This site contains information about IBM's efforts in this area, plus several pictures that illustrate how data mining correlations can be displayed.
Kurt Thearling's DataMining website: This site contains a good introductory tutorial and a number of articles.
DataWarehouse.com: Datawarehouse.com contains links to a number of articles for IT professionals.
Failure Rate: "Up to 70 percent of centralized enterprise data warehouses fail, according to a recent report by London-based consulting company Ovum Ltd. Failure rates are high because centralized enterprise data warehouses, which usually require a single data repository built around a comprehensive, enterprisewide data model, can be expensive and take years to develop."
ERP and supply chain
ERP/Supply Chain Research Center: This CIO site provides recent articles and links to other ERP and Supply Chain sites.
The ERP Fan Club and User Forum: The gateway to ERP resources on the Internet. This site is a good starting point for ERP information.
ERP Assist: ERP Assist, an independent company, manages this site, providing resources and information for ERP users.

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