This book concentrates on the information requirements and management perspectives needed in a business environment and provides a successful combination of business orientation with discussion of technological issues. Acknowledgements, Preface, Information Systems, Strategy and Information Systems, Business Information Technology, Distributed Systems and Networks and the Organization, Business and the World Wide Web and the Internet, Decision Support and End-User Computing, File Organization and Databases for Business Information Systems, Control in Information Systems, Information Systems Development: An Overview, The Systems Project: Early Stages, Process Analysis and Modelling, Data Analysis and Modelling, Systems Design, Detailed Design and Implementation and Review, Systems Analysis and Design: Alternative Approaches, Expert Systems and Knowledge Bases, Expert Systems: Development Through Prototyping, Index.