Aslib Proceedings: Volume 43 Issue 2/3
Table of contents
CEC Policy to Promote the European Information Services Market
Günter Stevan, Giorgio TrevisanIn view of the growing importance of information for the development of commerce, industry and research the Commission has undertaken, since 1975, various initiatives aiming at…
European Information Technology Policy
S.T. ColeMy subject today is European Information Technology policy. I shall first look at the legal basis for Community action in IT. I shall then enquire why the Community needs to take…
Doing Business in Europe: The Information Industry
Martin WhiteAnyone speaking about the information industry faces two major obstacles in analysing events, developments and trends. First, there is no widely accepted definition of what…
Bringing Peripheral Regions into the Information Market: the European Commission's STAR Programme
Roger BlackshawSome people are probably already familiar with the STAR programme that has been operating in Portugal since 1987, but I think it is appropriate to give a brief summary of the…
STAR in the West: the Search for Value Added Services in Ireland
Bill MartinIreland, North and South, is benefitting from the STAR Programme. In the North, some 25 million ECU has been provided, with about 39 million ECU for the South. This paper reports…
Information Management: from Turmoil to Effective Control
H.G. SolInformation Management (IM) is a field subject to great interest. However, it is obvious that IM is not an idea which could function in the long run as a focus point in practice…
Information Systems to Support Decision Processes
H.G. SolThe information systems discipline is developing at a tremendous pace, producing right things but also wrong ones — even modernisms. In want of more structure it is on the…
Costing and Pricing Information: the Bottom Line
John AkeroydOver the past decade there has been a substantial increase in both the number and variety of information products available and whilst some of these have been small scale…
More than just IT: Strategic Information Management
Ralph StrömfeltOne might think that there is a certain readiness within companies and other organisations to adopt new organisation methods with information processing as the starting point. At…
Methodologies and Models for Information Management
Ewan SutherlandThis article describes in outline the different approaches used to support the management of information, information systems and information technology. It has a bias towards…