Document (#7144)

Editor

Horton, F.W. Jr u. D. Lewis

Title

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

Imprint

London : Aslib

Year

1991

Pages

X,218 S

Isbn

0-85142-255-1

Abstract

Enthält: ANDERLA, G.: Is the West losing the information productivity contest?; BOEHM, E.H.: Hitler's decision to attack the Soviet Union, 1941; BURNS, C.: Three Miles Island: the information meltdown; CAWKELL, A.E.: The Tacoma Bridge disaster: a lesson in disregarding information?; DIENER, R.A.V.: Cultural dissolution, a societal information disaster: the case of the Yir Yoront in Australia; KIST, J.: Disaster at Arnhem: the role of information during the operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944; LYTLE, R.: The PPS information system development disaster in the early 1980s; NORTON, B. u. S. GOTTS: The events of October 1987; PRICE, W.H.: The pinnacle of deception: civil war intelligence and signals in 1864; SOPHAR, G.: $ 170.000 down the drain: the MRAIS story; TAYLOR, R.S.: Comments on Gaskill's 'Timetable of a failure'; WEITZEL, J.R. u. D.A. MARCHAND: The US Stock market crash of 1987: the role of information system malfunctions

Footnote

Rez. in: British journal of academic librarianship. 6(1991) S.123-126 (B. Naylor)

Theme

Information

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