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Great information disasters : twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune, and business failure
- Title
- Great information disasters : twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune, and business failure / edited by Forest W. Horton, Jr. and Dennis Lewis.
- Publication
- London : Aslib, ©1991.
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- Description
- x, 218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Communication > Accidents
- Disasters
- Information storage and retrieval systems
- Decision making
- History
- Communication
- Accidents
- Misinformation
- Disasters
- Information Systems
- Decision Making
- History
- Communication
- Accidents
- disasters
- decision making
- history (discipline)
- accidents
- Information storage and retrieval systems
- Decision making
- Communication > Accidents
- Informationsfluss
- Katastrophe
- Kommunikationsstörung
- Politik
- Störung
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Management
- Rampen
- Informatieverwerking (computer)
- Documentation, information science and librarianship
- Politics and political science
- Katastrophe
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 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.
- (cont) $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 crash of 1987: the role of information system malfunctions / John R. Weitzel and Donald A. Marchand.
- ISBN
- 0851422551
- 9780851422558
- LCCN
- 91176979
- OCLC
- ocm24954399
- 24954399
- SCSB-1962517
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library