In the end, management's ability to formulate and execute integrated global strategy requires effective information, planning and control systems.
D. Rutenberg
Multinational Management (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1982), 65.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After studying the material in this chapter, the student should be familiar with the following concepts:
(1) The basic elements of a control system
(2) Feedback and feedforward
(3) Control objects
(4) Profitability decision trees
(5) Information, information technology, information systems
(6) Global information systems: EXGLOBIS and INGLOBIS
(7) Transborder data flows
(8) The privacy principles
(9) Managing a GLOBIS: diagnosis, policies, and integration
(10) The vision-policy-architecture planning sequence
(11) INFOstructure and INFRAstructure
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