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

Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Aslib, 1991Description: x, 218 p. : ill., mapISBN:
  • 0851422551
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4038
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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 system 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; $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 crast of 1987, the role of information system malfunctions: John R. Weitzel and Donald A. Marchand

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