Description: By revolutionizing the way in which information is collected, processed, stored, and distributed, information engineering (IE) and computer-aided software engineering (CASE) are helping to fuel the race to make businesses more competitive, efficient, and productive. Entire organizations have been radically restructured thanks to the fact that IE and CASE now make information directly accessible throughout an organization without being distilled through multiple layers of management. But good intentions and dollars spent are no guarantee of success, and any technology, old or new, is only as good as the managers who manage it and the staff who uses it. Information systems rarely fail because of technical inadequacies. Usually, the failure stems from a lack of staff expertise in how to apply the basic concepts and principles of new technogies to the unique organizational milieu. Information Engineering was designed to assist managers and information workers in high-tech companies to successfully integrate and maintain computer-aided software programs into their organization's engineering information system. It provides step-by-step guidance to the assessment of a company's specific needs and to the implementation of systems tailored to the company's business goals. And it describes how commercially available CASE packages can be successfully combined with engineering systems developed in-house. By following the proven training techniques found in this book, managers will quickly develop staffs fully versed in planning, designing, analyzing, and constructing integrated information systems that support complex manufacturing and supply operations, or any high-tech business that reliesheavily upon the rapid information exchange of complex technical information.

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