TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sprague, Ralph H. 
AU  - McNurlin, Barbara C.
TI  - Information systems management in practice
SN  - 9780130422767 
U1  - 658.4038011 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : 
PB  - Prentice Hall, 
KW  - Management information systems
KW  - Information resources management.
N1  - Preface --
1. The Importance of Information Systems Management --
pt. I. Leadership Issues --
2. Information Systems Management's Leadership Role --
3. The Strategic Role of Information Systems --
4. Information Systems Planning --
pt. II. Managing the Essential Technologies --
5. Distributed Systems: The Overall Architecture --
6. Building the Telecommunications Highway System --
7. Managing Information Resources --
8. Managing Information Systems Operations --
pt. III. Managing System Development --
9. The Evolving System Development Spectrum --
10. Management Issues in System Development --
pt. IV. Managing the New Universe of Computing --
11. The Expanding Universe of Computing --
12. Supporting the Expanding Universe of Computing --
pt. V. Support Systems --
13. Decision Support Systems and Executive Information Systems --
14. Group Support Systems --
15. The Growing Importance of Intelligent Systems --
16. Electronic Document Management --
pt. VI. Information Systems and People --
17. Helping People Become Comfortable with Information Technology --
18. Managing the Human Side of Systems
N2  - For management information systems courses this text explores how information systems management is practised by organizations, offering a business world perspective and looking at issues that CIOs face. Management of information technology, rather than technical aspects, is stressed
ER  -