Network security appears (at least to the author), in some respects, to have come full circle. Many of today’s so-called innovations in network security can in fact, at least in part, be traced back to having originally been implemented in one form or another in the decades-old Orange Book standards. Th e author, having worked with a firewall vendor that in the early 1990s had developed the f…
Eighty percent or more of major marine accidents are caused or influenced by humans and organizations. Research has identified characteristics of high reliability organizations (HRO), organizations which have had few accidents while involved in operations where failure would result in severe consequences. These characteristics have important effects on the safety of marine systems. Assessing …
Information technologies are perhaps the most aggressive technologies of the current age, generating progress, change, and turbulence in many branches of industry and in the lives of organizations and individuals. Microelectronic systems are shrinking in size and cost, growing in performance, expanding their range to the world level, and crossing cultural boundaries. As societies attain higher …
To ensure that the highest safety, health and environmental standards exist for both Holcim (Australia) employees, the contractor and their employees, the following summary of safety, health and environment provisions will apply in total or in part to any contract work undertaken on a Holcim (Australia) Site. Contractors must indicate acceptance of these conditions and give a commitment to…
Welcome to Information Systems for Business and Beyond. In this book, you will be introduced to the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world.
Fusion has become an important aspect of information processing in several very different fields, in which the information that needs to be fused, the objectives, the methods, and hence the terminology, can vary greatly, even if there are also many analogies. The objective of this chapter is to specify the context of fusion in the field of signal and image processing, to specify the concepts …
Project management has evolved from a management philosophy restricted to a few functional areas and regarded as something nice to have to an enterprise project management system affecting every functional unit of the company. Simply stated, project management has evolved into a business process rather than merely a project management process. More and more companies are now regarding proj…
Few phenomena characterize our time more uniquely and powerfully than the rapid rise and influence of information technologies. These technologies have unleashed a tsunami of data that rolls over and flattens us in its wake. Taming this beast has become a primary goal of the information industry. One tool that has emerged from this effort…
Information is more abundant today than ever before. With smart‐ phones, activity monitors, smart watches, tablets, and new Internet- enabled appliances of every kind, we also have many more ways of interacting with it than before. This abundance and pervasiveness makes our lives better in many ways, but it also introduces new chal‐ lenges. With so much information available in so many plac…
Strategy needn’t be mysterious. Conceptually, it is simple and straightforward. It requires clear and hard thinking, real creativity, courage, and personal leadership. —A.G. Lafley, CEO, Procter & Gamble When you think about going sailing off the coast of a faraway land, you probably don’t imagine yourself fighting for your life in a sudden, horrible storm. But that’s what happened to…
On the face of it, you have to wonder why we do it. Why we work all the long hours, often making a less than comfortable income, and dealing with seemingly endless problems in all different areas of the business. Handling internal staffing issues, supplier problems, customer complaints, government paperwork, and technology challenges—some days it never seems to stop! Of course, we do it becau…
Virtualization has made a big name in today's technologies and it is a growing market for vendors as well as engineers. The main concept behind this book is to make anyone with basic IT administrative skills a virtualization-ready administrator. This book mainly covers the Citrix XenServer and virtualization concepts in a balanced mode. Readers can go through the entire book and either theoreti…
In the year 2012, healthcare has been a fairly controversial issue for the United States, as state, federal, and local policies continuously debate big buzzwords like autonomy, leadership, regula- tion, and their presence in citizens’ lives. What many healthcare professionals do not realize is that healthcare information technology, or HIT, usage in healthcare settings has been one of the few…
Identity—the very essence of who we are and how we interact with others—is in the middle of a period of extraordinary tumult. The Internet and a host of new communications technologies have transformed the concept of identity and redefined our relationships to businesses, governments and constantly churning networks of friends and peers. Growing numbers of digital natives now define thems…
This chapter will cover the new features in the Lotus Notes 8.0 and 8.5 release. The first sections will cover the 8.0 client and the latter sections the 8.5 client. In the following sections, we will take a quick look at some of the major new features offered in the Lotus Notes 8 client. These include: User interface enhancements Mail enhancements Calendar enhancements Contacts (formerly known…
Aristotle came to Athens in 367 BCE at the age of 17, to go to university. ‘University’ in this case meant the Academy, the philosophical school founded by the great Plato, who himself had been a disciple of Socrates. Athens was the cultural centre of the Mediterranean, and its citizens might have had two reasons for not being immediately impressed by the young Aristotle. He came from the f…
As with the first three editions, this fourth edition of Strategic Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems aims to present the many complex and inter-related issues associated with the management of information systems in and between organizations. The primary audiences are M.B.A. or other Master’s level students and senior undergraduate students …