INFORMATION-SYSTEMS AUDITORS - FRIEND OR FOE

Information Systems management finds itself in a dilemma. Maintaining competitiveness in the marketplace increasingly means that organizatio ns must rely on computing and networking technologies that are new and essentially unfamiliar, that are unstable in the sense that any given application of the technology tends to become obsolete quickly, and t hat fundamentally change how organizations do their work. This reality cannot be avoided. This article identifies a valuable resource that c an help managers effectively control these technologies.