Article ID: | iaor19911814 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 45 |
End Page Number: | 53 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1991 |
Journal: | European Journal of Information Systems |
Authors: | Coulson-Thomas C. |
Keywords: | information |
In the face of multiple challenges and opportunities, in a turbulent business environment, chief executives are seeking to create more flexible and adaptable organizations. Increasingly these are taking the form of networks, with electronic links forwards to customers, backwards to suppliers and sideways to business partners. These networks are becoming global, bringing together all those who wish to contribute a proportion of their time to a particular mission. The staff of the network organization need to be supported by a communications network that is itself flexible and adaptable, and able to facilitate multi-functional, multi-location and multi-national team working. In the main the major constraints conc