The Integrative Effect of Electronic Data Processing

Electronic data processing systems have been constructed based on the results of cybernetics and communication theory. They interpret the combination of several constructs as integrated systems that form integrated systems of a higher degree. This corresponds to the way modern economics looks at corporate functions, enterprises, the economy... This fundamental tendency is reflected by the idea that the most important factor in electronic data processing systems is not the speed of operation but the integrative effect. Therefore it is necessary to arrange workflows in a closed control system, under consideration of the most rational path. Thus IDP advances the aims of business organization to a higher level and at the same time provides means for reaching these aims. Reprint of an article from elektronische datenverarbeitung 1(1)1959:14–19. The original summary has been revised by the editorial staff

On Dinosaurs, Measurement Ideologists, Separatists, and Happy Souls - Proposing and Justifying a Way to Make the Global IS/BISE Community Happy

This article constitutes an "editorialized", partly shortened, and partly extended version of the paper "Business and information systems engineering: a complementary approach to information systems - what we can learn from the past and may conclude from present reflection on the future" by Hans Ulrich Buhl, Günter Müller, Gilbert Fridgen, and Maximilian Röglinger that appeared in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems 13(4):236-253, April 2012. The editorial has been presented as a keynote on the BIS conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, in May 2012 and the BISE workshop in Hannover, Germany, in October 2012. An earlier version has been published in the BIS proceedings