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Focus issue on legacy information systems and business process change: a business perspective of legacy information systems (1999)
Journal Article
Kelly, S., Gibson, N., Holland, C., & Light, B. (1999). Focus issue on legacy information systems and business process change: a business perspective of legacy information systems. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2(7), 1-27

Legacy information systems evolved incrementally in response to changes in business strategy and information technology. Organizations are now being forced to change much more radically and quickly than previously and this change places new demands... Read More about Focus issue on legacy information systems and business process change: a business perspective of legacy information systems.

A critical success factors model for ERP implementation (1999)
Journal Article
Holland, C., & Light, B. (1999). A critical success factors model for ERP implementation. IEEE Software, 16(3), 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1109/52.765784

An effective IT infrastructure can support a business vision and strategy; a poor, decentralized one can break a company. More and more companies are turning to off-the-shelf ERP solutions for IT planning and legacy systems management. The authors ha... Read More about A critical success factors model for ERP implementation.

Risk, trust and governmentality : setting priorities in the new NHS (1999)
Thesis
Joyce, P. Risk, trust and governmentality : setting priorities in the new NHS. (Thesis). University of Salford

The thesis explores priority setting in the National Health Service. It focuses on the changing way in which rationing issues are dealt with in the wake of the Health Service reforms and the separation of function between purchasing and providing hea... Read More about Risk, trust and governmentality : setting priorities in the new NHS.

The 19th century brass band in Northern England : musical and social factors in the development of a major amateur musical medium (1999)
Thesis
Newsome, R. The 19th century brass band in Northern England : musical and social factors in the development of a major amateur musical medium. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

This thesis examines the development of the amateur wind band in Britain during the nineteenth century, with special reference to the increasing domination of the brass band, particularly in northern England. After a preliminary review of British a... Read More about The 19th century brass band in Northern England : musical and social factors in the development of a major amateur musical medium.

Signs of life (1999)
Digital Artefact
Knudsen, E. (1999). Signs of life

What happens when you want to die, but can't? What happens when you want to live, but can't? Sarah wanted to die - but didn't quite make it. Trapped in a body paralysed by immobility and silence, Sarah wants to live - but can't quite make it.... Read More about Signs of life.

Popular music on screen: From Hollywood musical to music video (1999)
Report
Mundy, J. (1999). Popular music on screen: From Hollywood musical to music video

A critical and historical overview of the place, role and function of popular music on film and television screens, describing what the author denotes as 'the visual economy of popular music'.

A study of portable computers and interactive multimedia as a new tool for interpreting museum collections (1999)
Thesis
Evans, J. A study of portable computers and interactive multimedia as a new tool for interpreting museum collections. (Thesis). University of Salford

Over the last two decades the introduction of interactive multimedia applications complimenting existing interpretative techniques in museum displays has become a widely accepted practice. Indeed fixed interactive multimedia applications can commun... Read More about A study of portable computers and interactive multimedia as a new tool for interpreting museum collections.

Focus Issue on Legacy Information Systems and Business Process Change (1999)
Journal Article
Holland, C., Light, B., & Kawalek, P. (1999). Focus Issue on Legacy Information Systems and Business Process Change. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2(1),

This editorial is an introduction to a focus issue on legacy information systems research that has been conducted under the aegis of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) research programme into systems engineering and bus... Read More about Focus Issue on Legacy Information Systems and Business Process Change.

Alternative history and Christoph Ransmayr’s “Morbus Kitahara” (1999)
Journal Article
Foster, I. (1999). Alternative history and Christoph Ransmayr’s “Morbus Kitahara”. Modern Austrian literature, 32(1), 111-125

This article considers Christoph Ransmayr's monumental 1995 novel Morbus Kithara in the context of the science fiction genre of "alternative history" or contrafactual history. The complex questions of guitl and responsibility, remembrance of the pas... Read More about Alternative history and Christoph Ransmayr’s “Morbus Kitahara”.

Spinal cord injury in Saudi Arabia : characteristics, bone mineral density, and functional electrical stimulation for upright mobility (1999)
Thesis
AboAbat, A. Spinal cord injury in Saudi Arabia : characteristics, bone mineral density, and functional electrical stimulation for upright mobility. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

A nation-wide SCI survey was conducted for the first time in Saudi Arabia. It showed that the current situation and characteristic features of SCI patients was significantly different from that in other countries and there is deficiency in medical an... Read More about Spinal cord injury in Saudi Arabia : characteristics, bone mineral density, and functional electrical stimulation for upright mobility.

The European Union and the Maghreb countries : assessing a north-south relationship (1999)
Thesis
Aghrout, A. The European Union and the Maghreb countries : assessing a north-south relationship. (Thesis). University of Salford

This study is concerned with the relationship between the European Union(EU) and the Maghreb countries from its inception up to now. It sets out to examine the effects that the Union policy, in its different phases and proper instruments, appears to... Read More about The European Union and the Maghreb countries : assessing a north-south relationship.

Mapping the museum : the cultural consumption and production of two north west heritage sites (1999)
Thesis
Bagnall, G. Mapping the museum : the cultural consumption and production of two north west heritage sites. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

This thesis is based on case studies of two prominent heritage sites in the Greater Manchester area: Wigan Pier and The Museum of Science and Industry. These case studies have involved detailed interviews with and observation of visitors to the sites... Read More about Mapping the museum : the cultural consumption and production of two north west heritage sites.