Data quality has been shown to be a major determinant of the value of systems that utilizeinput data feeds and transform them into valuable information under a variety of businesscontexts. For this study, we have chosen a financial risk management context to investigatethe relationship between...

Under circumstances where data quality may vary, knowledge about the potentialperformance of alternate predictive models can enable a decision maker to design aninformation system whose value is optimized in two ways. The decision maker can selecta model which is least sensitive to predictive...

Methods for sound risk management are of increasing interest among Wall Street investment banking andbrokerage firms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stock market. We present an overview of thebasic definitions and issues related to risk, and the management of financial risk and...

Senior management's ability to gauge the business value of investments in information technology (IT) hasbeen seriously hampered by a lack of analytic tools to conduct sound performance assessment. In thispaper, we present a conceptual framework called a quot;business value linkagequot; that is...

Customer access information technology offers greatpotential benefits to both the organization and itscustomers. However, managers lack methods forevaluating these technologies and determining whetherconditions exist for success. We propose a model fromMarketing Science which captures factors...

Measurement of software development productivity is needed in order to controlsoftware costs, but it is discouragingly labor-intensive and expensive. Computer aidedsoftware engineering (CASE) technologies -- especially object-oriented, integrated CASE-- have the potential to support the...

The paper illustrates quot;business value linkage impact analysisquot;, a new method for measuring the business value of information technology (IT), in the context of a case study of electronic banking operations at Meridian Bancorp, a large commercial bank. Management science models were...

Measurement of software development productivity is needed in order to control software costs, but it isdiscouragingly labor-intensive and expensive. Computer aided software engineering (CASE) technologies --especially repository-based, integrated CASE -- have the potential to support the...