The Architecture and Planning of Enterprise-Wide Information Management Systems

This book offers an innovative approach and map for developing corporate-wide information systems architecture with pragmatic applications. The author describes the architecture of enterprise automated systems, and integrates business strategy with systems strategy planning. In 312 pages the author provides innovative models for corporate-wide information systems to limit dispersed information and provide tools for logical integration of systems within your organization. In addition, the author uses the original architectures of General Motors and Sears as examples that create a bridge to the innovative architecture of enterprise-wide automated systems. This approach should change the focus of future systems analysis and design by putting more emphasis on information systems planning within your organization, your home and society. Features include extensive graphic models and bibliographies; scientific classifications and complete sets of IS; and reviews and critiques of the main stream ideas in the discipline.