Improving the information systems provisioning process at Partners Healthcare has been about knocking down walls between teams as much as breaking down silos of information, Scott MacLean, deputy CIO ...

Understanding offline processes is as important to managing technical systems as knowing how to manipulate, transmit and store electronic data. A mix of computer science and business management ...

To gain the maximum benefits from your company's information system, you have to exploit all its capacities. Information systems gain their importance by processing the data from company inputs to ...

This chapter focuses on a critical part of the systematic-review process: the assessment of the individual studies that are selected for inclusion in a review. As depicted in Figure 5-1, this step ...

The World Bank's definition of a financial management information system, or FMIS, is simply the automation of financial operations. With that definition in mind, there are plenty of database ...

A management information system (MIS) is a computerized database of financial information organized and programmed in such a way that it produces regular reports on operations for every level of ...