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    Information Systems and Globalization

    Number of Pages: 8

     

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    In eight pages this paper discusses information system integration as it pertains to the World Bank. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.

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    savings and more efficient business opportunities by facilitating faster and more accurate communication, the gathering, correlation and analysing of data to aid with decision making as well as convenient and  easily accessible record keeping. The public sector and other non commercial organisations have also found the benefits to be in the interests of those they serve. These types of  organisation also have to be accountable to those that provide the funding. In undertaken the use of technology the results they produce may also be seen as benefiting from the  same advantages as the commercial sector. For those that are the clients of these organisations the idea is that the computerisation and resources saved by the use of technology better  facilities the use of a greater amount of resources for those who need it. In addition to this the new technology can also help with the management of the resources  so that they are maximised. This is a concept that the World Bank is familiar with. This is a wide spread and widely diversified organisation with numerous projects  and extensive resources. The integration of the different systems may offer some forms of synergy that cannot be gained in any other way. However, integrating an organisation of this size  has many problems. If we look to the World bank and its operations we can see how there may be many pressures  and demands on such as system, as well as why it may be desirable. The World Bank is not a stranger to new technology. The World Banks first computer  was installed nearly over three decades ago in 1968 (Marion, 1986). This was to aid faster and more efficient payroll functions. The computer was the only one for many years, 

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