Information Systems Management in Public Sector Organizations

Most of urban water infrastructure around the world were built several decades ago and nowadays they are deteriorated. So, the assets that constitute these infrastructures need to be rehabilitated. Since most of the assets are buried, water utilities face the challenge of deciding how, where and when to rehabilitate. Condition assessment is a vital component on plan rehabilitation actions and is mostly based on the data collected from the managed networks. This collected data need to be put together in order to be transformed into useful information. Nonetheless, the large amount of assets and data involved makes data and information management a challenging task for water utilities, especially in those with as lower digital maturity level. This paper highlights the importance of data and information systems' management for urban water infrastructure condition assessment based on the authors' experience.

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Total Information Systems Management

European Journal of Information Systems ◽

10.1057/ejis.1995.15 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 119-120

Author(s):

Irene Cameron ◽

Richard Baskerville

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Systems Management ◽

Information Systems Management ◽

Total Information

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Information Technologies (ICT), Network Organizations, and Information Systems for Business Cooperation

Rethinking the Conceptual Base for New Practical Applications in Information Value and Quality - Advances in Information Quality and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4562-2.ch015 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 324-348

Author(s):

Antonio-Juan Briones-Peñalver ◽

José Poças Rascão

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Information Systems ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Strategic Alliances ◽

Growth And Development ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Systems Management ◽

Information Systems Management ◽

Network Organizations ◽

Strategic Knowledge Management

Information Technologies (ICT) have developed systems and network organizations that foster the creation of resources for company management. The establishment of strategic alliances and business cooperation systems has been encouraged by ICT and information systems management. This focus on organization and strategic knowledge management shows the capabilities they provide in managing organizations’ intangible assets, information and knowledge, since they are a competitive advantage. Network organizations, intercompany systems, cooperation, and alliances with the support of ICT are the paths to enterprises growth and development.

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Management Instruments for Sustainable Information Systems Management

Green Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-472-1.ch607 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1448-1465

Author(s):

Koray Erek ◽

Nils-Holger Schmidt ◽

Rüdiger Zarnekow ◽

Lutz M. Kolbe

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Balanced Scorecard ◽

Maturity Model ◽

Systems Management ◽

Green It ◽

Conceptual Foundation ◽

Information Systems Management ◽

The Balanced Scorecard ◽

Is Management ◽

Sustainable Information Systems Management

The increasing dissemination of information systems (IS) into all areas of business and personal life has drawn attention to its economic, environmental and social effects. IS organizations are becoming aware that they have to take up their responsibility by thinking seriously about sustainability management for information systems. While measures for using computing resources efficiently have received considerable attention, the topic of sustainability in IS management is still lacking theoretical and conceptual foundation. As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of “Green IT”, the purpose of this chapter is to apply the concept of sustainability into the field of IS management using practical concepts such as a procedural model, the balanced scorecard and a maturity model.

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Urban Information Systems in Turkish Local Governments

Information Communication Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-949-6.ch191 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 2673-2681

Author(s):

Koray Velibeyoglu

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Public Sector ◽

Local Governments ◽

Geographical Information Systems ◽

Development Process ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Digital Maps ◽

Public Sector Organizations

Since the end of 1980s, different sectors have implemented geographical information systems (GIS) in Turkey. A study on GIS market in Turkey indicates that municipalities are the primary customers (Gülersoy & Yigiter, 1999). One of the earliest GIS projects in Turkey began with the production of digital maps covering the boundaries of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality in 1987. Since 1994, a rapid development process has occurred with the widespread diffusion of GIS especially in universities and large public sector organizations respectively. However, the early city-wide municipal GIS projects were initiated only after 1996 (Ucuzal, 1999).

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