The MIS Education Crisis: 10 Steps for Industry

Although demand for management information systems education at business schools continues to increase rapidly as a result of increasing industry needs, analysts are projecting that serious shortages of qualified faculty will continue. Such shortages result from insufficient numbers of doctoral programs and graduates, business school accreditation standards, and the inability of business schools to offer the high salaries and other benefits offered by industry. Industry support is critical in addressing MIS education problems. This article proposes 10 steps that industry can take to help alleviate the MIS faculty shortage.     

Robotics: The Coining Challenge for MIS Managers

Several manufacturing plants in the U.S. and abroad have already switched from human factory operators to robots, and many more are planning the switch. Planning for robotics is not the sole province of manufacturing engineers and productivity experts, however; MIS managers will be called upon to integrate robot-controlling computers with management information systems.     

MIS Budget Cutbacks: Alternative Actions for MIS Managers

Because most MIS managers face budget cutbacks at one time or another, they should be prepared to reduce certain departmental expenditures. This article presents the results of a survey in which 79 MIS managers ranked 18 alternative actions to reduce expenses, including elimination of external consultant assignments and reduction of end-user computing support.     

研究生教育管理信息系统的设计及实现

本文在分析研究生教育管理信息流的基础上,对研究生教育管理信息系统的体系结构和网络结构及其选择进行了研究,采用Ｃ／Ｓ模式作为研究生教育管理信息系统的运行平台,并对系统的及安全机制进行了介绍。本系统的应用为研究生教育管理上水平提供了有铲的手段。     

双语教学的危机及对策

本文通过对比中日两国、内地与香港的英语教学的现状及得失来分析说明我们外语政策可能存在的问题,并提出相应解决方案。本文认为双语教学应在师资具备的情况下有选择性地开展,避免把双语教学作为对学校的一种评价指标而出现攀比现象。提出应尊重学生自愿选择教育媒介语的权利,以选修课的形式开展双语教学。     

Painful Steps of Progress from Crisis Planning to Contingency Planning: Changes for Disaster Preparedness in Turkey

Excessive losses in natural disasters in Turkey are, to a large extent, a consequence of omissions and deficiencies in the structuring of ‘disasters’ and ‘development’ laws, as well as negligent land‐use practices and avoidance of control in building processes. Two extreme forms of legal and organizational structures in disasters policy could be formulated as the ‘fatalist’ and ‘self‐reliance‘ models. Their contrasts can be investigated in terms of (a) the use of information concerning natural phenomena in formal planning procedures; (b) pre‐ or post‐disaster emphasis in preparations; (c) the political or technical basis of decisions; (d) the extraordinary or routine nature of responses; (e) the general or specialized nature of financial sources used; (f) and their compatibility with the order of priorities in risk management. An evaluation of the conventional policy in Turkey clarifies a position closer to the ‘fatalist’ model and indicates the lines of action for improvements. However, after the 1999 earthquakes, the conventional approach in disaster policy has been restructured. With the newly introduced ‘Obligatory Building Insurance’, ‘Building Control’, and ‘Professional Proficiency’ systems, greater emphasis is now given to mitigation efforts, and the introduction of contingency planning practices is more likely to happen.     

Client Satisfaction: The Yardstick for Measuring MIS Success

An MIS department is essentially a service organization whose central mission is to meet the needs of its customers, or clients. Effective communication is essential to the fulfillment of this mission. This article describes mechanisms and procedures that MIS departments can use to discover clients' needs, inform clients about MIS services, and notify clients of actions taken to resolve reported problems, thereby increasing client satisfaction.     

Client Satisfaction: The Yardstick for Measuring MIS Success

An MIS department is essentially a service organization whose central mission is to meet the needs of its customers, or clients. Effective communication is essential to the fulfillment of this mission. This article describes mechanisms and procedures that MIS departments can use to discover clients' needs, inform clients about MIS services, and notify clients of actions taken to resolve reported problems, thereby increasing client satisfaction.     

RFID技术在制造业管理信息系统中的应用研究

针对射频识别（RFID）技术应用的广泛前景,本文把RFID的数据采集系统与MES、WMS相结合应用到制造业物流各个环节,从而优化了其物流流程,同时设计了从采购到销售全过程的物流管理信息系统基本结构,以及应用RFID的基本业务操作流程,实现了流程中数据的自动采集,在提高生产效率的同时也为制造业带来显著效益。     

Technology in Science Education: The Next 10 Years

Federal activity in key areas can help ensure the successful application of the microcomputer and the videodisk to science education.     

行业管理信息系统通用平台的开发

论文通过分析管理信息系统开发中存在的问题,提出了一种通用平台的开发思想,并分别详细叙述了通用平台的用户界面、通用管理系统、功能模块库和通用数据库框架的具体设计,最后对此通用平台的优点进行了描述。     

Cyber-Resilience: Seven Steps for Institutional Survival

No enterprise will ever be 100% secure. There are just too many threats. This article presents seven practical steps to achieving cyber-resilience. Cyber resilience is not a traditional defensive stance. It requires a change in the way organizations approach security of its information and communication technology (ICT) asset base. Cyber resilience is integrated into the “bones” of the organization and requires the organization to develop a well-defined, explicit architecture of controls to ensure cyber resiliency. The controls assure provable protection of critical ICT assets and their various interdependencies from every form of electronic, human and physical threat; inside and outside the enterprise’s eco-system. Cyber-resilient architectures make attacks less likely to succeed, minimize the consequences when they do, increase the work-factor cost and uncertainty for the adversary, and possibly act as a deterrent against future attacks. Cyber resilience is enforced as an organizational condition rather than a deployed set of explicit countermeasures. This goal requires that a robust set of concrete controls are embedded in the enterprise architecture. Effective implementation of a cyber-resilient enterprise architecture requires strategic vision. It also requires day-to-day engagement across the enterprise to ensure that the controls that enable cyber resilience are effective.     

The Forensic Investigation Steps

In our last column we introduced the notion of end-to-end forensics and explored the attacker’s approach to a penetration attempt. In this column we will begin the process of understanding the forensics involved and dig more deeply into the end-to-end concept.     

一种基于校园网的高校教材管理信息系统

文中提出了一种以校园网为依托,C/S和B/S混合模式下的高校教材管理信息系统.它不仅具有过去单机版管理软件无法比拟的效率优势,又克服了传统C/S模式管理信息系统信息共享性差的弱点.在阐述了系统的体系结构、功能特点之后,简单介绍了系统设计时所使用的类模块、ASP、数据复制等关键技术.