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Great information disasters : twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune, and business failure

Title
  1. 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.
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  1. London : Aslib, 1991.

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Additional authors
  1. Horton, Forest W.
  2. Lewis, Dennis, 1928-
Description
  1. x, 218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Communication > Accidents
  2. Disasters
  3. Information Systems
  4. Decision Making
  5. History
  6. Communication
  7. Accidents
  8. Informationsfluss
  9. Katastrophe
  10. Kommunikationsstörung
  11. Politik
  12. Störung
  13. Aufsatzsammlung
  14. Management
  15. Rampen
  16. Informatieverwerking (computer)
  17. Documentation, information science and librarianship
  18. Politics and political science
  19. Management
Genre/Form
  1. Aufsatzsammlung.
Contents
  1. 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.
  2. (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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.