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Great information disasters : twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune, and business failure / edited by Forest W. Horton, Jr. and Dennis Lewis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Aslib, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0851422551
  • 9780851422558
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2 20
LOC classification:
  • P96.A22 G74 1991
  • Z1001
Contents:
Is the West losing the information productivity contest? / Georges Anderla -- Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union, 1941 / Eric H. Boehm -- Three Mile Island: the information meltdown / Christopher Burns -- The Tacoma Bridge Disaster: a lesson in disregarding information? / Anthony E. Cawkell -- Cultural dissolution, a societal information disaster: the case of the Yir Yoront in Australia / Richard A.V. Diener -- Disaster at Arnhem: the role of information during the operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944 / J. Kist -- The PPS Information Development Disaster in the early 1980s / Richard Lytle -- The events of October 1987 / Bob Norton and Simon Gotts -- The pinnacle of deception: Civil War Intelligence and Signals in 1864 / William Hamilton Price --
(cont) $170,000 down the drain: the MRAIS story / Gerald Sophar -- Comments on Gaskill's 'Timetable of a Failure' / Robert S. Taylor -- The US stock market crash of 1987: the role of information system malfunctions / John R. Weitzel and Donald A. Marchand.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is the West losing the information productivity contest? / Georges Anderla -- Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union, 1941 / Eric H. Boehm -- Three Mile Island: the information meltdown / Christopher Burns -- The Tacoma Bridge Disaster: a lesson in disregarding information? / Anthony E. Cawkell -- Cultural dissolution, a societal information disaster: the case of the Yir Yoront in Australia / Richard A.V. Diener -- Disaster at Arnhem: the role of information during the operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944 / J. Kist -- The PPS Information Development Disaster in the early 1980s / Richard Lytle -- The events of October 1987 / Bob Norton and Simon Gotts -- The pinnacle of deception: Civil War Intelligence and Signals in 1864 / William Hamilton Price --

(cont) $170,000 down the drain: the MRAIS story / Gerald Sophar -- Comments on Gaskill's 'Timetable of a Failure' / Robert S. Taylor -- The US stock market crash of 1987: the role of information system malfunctions / John R. Weitzel and Donald A. Marchand.

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