Further reading and useful weblinks
Here you will find useful pointers to further sources to expand your knowledge of the subject. These include references to important books and textual resources as well as relevant websites and news articles that emphasise the contemporary relevance of business information.
- Further Reading (PDF ~ 133 KB)
Weblinks
BIS in the News
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8666537.stm
BBC NEWS ONLINE News article: Voters frustrations at polling problems - http://www.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8707355.stm
BBC NEWS ONLINE News article: Identity cards scheme will be axed 'within 100 days' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7104368.stm
BBC NEWS ONLINE ARTICLE: Amazon Kindle Fire to enter tablet market - http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-trading-mishap-cost-it-440-million/
NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE: Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/new-patient-chart-to-save-6000-lives-a-year-in-the-uk-7979658.html>
New patient chart to save 6,000 lives a year in the UK - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21047652
DVD rental firm Blockbuster goes into administration after struggling against online competitors - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21021073
Music and DVD retail chain HMV appoint administrators
Data Protection
- http://www.freedomhouse.org
Human rights organisation that monitors censorship of the Internet.
Development Method
- http://www.dsdm.org
Dynamic systems development method: an agile development method.
eBusiness
- http://www.amazon.com
Amazon web-site. - http://www.business2.com
Business 2.0 magazine. General business magazine that has regular features on business models appropriate to the 'New Economy'. - http://www.cisco.com
Cisco company web-site. - http://news.cnet.com/
A commercial web-site offering technology news. - http://www.brint.com
A Business Researcher's Interests is a searchable listing of links to online resources related to contemporary business and Management and Information Technology issues. It provides links to hundreds of full-text articles, case studies and tools, as well as other Internet resources. Topics covered include Business Process Reengineering, Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, Complex Systems & Chaos, Intranets, Virtual Corporations, Outsourcing, Electronic Markets & Electronic Commerce. - http://www.dell.com
Dell company web-site. - http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijeb
International journal of electronic business. Bi-monthly refereed journal dealing with working and potential e-business models and applications as well as emerging issues of interest to professionals and academics. - http://www.informationweek.com/index.jhtml
An on-line magazine covering business technology. - http://it.toolbox.com/
A site with articles on many aspects of ICT such as programming languages, ERP systems and DBMS. - http://www.zdnet.com/
A commercial web-site covering the latest ICTs.
eCommerce
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7825605.stm
BBC news item on Tesco - http://www.ijec-web.org/
International journal of electronic commerce. Refereed quarterly journal devoted to the understanding and practice of eCommerce. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/supermarkets
The Guardian newspapers' online newspaper section on the newspaper business - http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/charter/
Tesco webpage of the loyalty card charter - http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/
Tesco's green web-site
eBusiness and eCommerce
- http://www.ebay.com
eBay company web-site. - http://www.easyjet.com
Easyjet company web-site. - http://www.napster.com
Napster company web-site.
ICT
- http://www.howstuffworks.com
A general site with some accessible explanations of some key information technologies.
ICT: Database system
- http://www.mysql.com
Official web-site of the open source DBMS MySQL
ICT: Infrastructure
- http://www.isoc.org
The Internet Society (ISOC) is a non-profit organisation founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. - http://www.w3.org
World wide web consortium - http://www.w3.org/XML
Main page for XML activity on the World wide web consortium web-site.
ICT: Software
- http://www.google.com
Google website. - http://www.mysql.com
Official web-site of of the open source DBMS MySQL - http://www.linux.org
Official site of the Linux operating system - http://www.opensource.org
Manages the open source trademark and promotes open source development. - http://www.sap.com
SAP company web-site.
Informatics: Academies
- http://www.acm.org
The Association for Computing Machinery is both a professional body and a venue for academic discussions on any issues relating to computing in the large. - http://www.aisnet.org
The Association of Information Systems: an organisation promoting the Information Systems field internationally. - http://www.isworld.org
An international site maintaining various academic resources on the information systems field. - http://www.ukais.org
The UK Academy for Information Systems: an organisation promoting the Information Systems field in the UK.
Informatics Industry Consumers
- http://www.ikea.com
IKEA company web-site. - http://www.tesco.com
Tesco company web-site. - Informatics Industry Producers
- http://www.eds.com
EDS company web-site. - http://www.sap.com
SAP company web-site. - http://www.microsoft.com
Microsoft company web-site.
Informatics Operations
- http://www.itil-officialsite.com
Site containing information on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
Informatics Practice
- http://www.computing.co.uk/
Computing magazine - has regular articles on aspects of e-business.
Informatics: Profession
- http://www.imis.org.uk/
The Institute for the Management of Information Systems is a professional body specialising in the management of IS. - http://www.iee.org/
Although called the Institute of Electrical Engineers, this institution does cover one of the reference disciplines for organisational informatics - software engineering. - http://www.bcs.org.uk
The British Computer Society - professional body for information systems engineering in the UK.
Informatics: Service: Outsourcing
- http://www.eds.com
EDS company web-site.
Modelling
- http://www.omg.org
Business motivation modelling; Business process modelling
Project management
- http://www.prince-officialsite.com/home/home.asp
Official Prince2 site: describes in overview the project management method.
Virtual communities
- http://www.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia web-site. - http://www.ideastorm.com/
Dell's customer community site. - http://www.facebook.com
Facebook social networking site. - http://www.flickr.com
Flickr social networking site. A photo sharing application. - http://www.myspace.com
MySpace social networking site. - http://www.friendster.com
Friendster social networking site. - http://www.youtube.com
YouTube social networking site.