THE BUSINESS OF SPORT MANAGEMENT
Chapter 11

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN SPORT

Cameron O'Beirne and Susan Stoney

  

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No further supporting materials have been recommended by the chapter author.

WEBSITES RECOMMENDED BY THE AUTHORS:

The following websites may provide useful starting points for further knowledge on the use of information technology and eBusiness within sport business management.
Jakob Nielsen's website provides information on principles of best practise in web design and how people actually use the WWW. This can be supplemented by information from Macromedia.com on the need for accessibility as an issue and how accessibility guidelines can improve websites for everyone.
The IBM website highlights case studies and the company's involvement with sport organisations and the solutions that have been provided. Using the search function and entering "sport" links to pages of case studies of various sport organisations IBM has been involved with including the US Open tennis, The Olympics, Wimbledon, The Ryder Cup Golf Championship, and the US national Hockey League.

Please refer to the chapter bibliography regarding the following websites:
 

Allen Consulting Group's Australia's Information Economy: The big picture.
J Chappelet's Web-based Learning for Sport Administrators: The Example of the SOMIT Project.
J Gapper's Online sports market to be decimated.
TR Haggerty's Computer based information technologies and sport administration.
BE Holcomb's The virtual athletic training room.
K Needham's Liberty One rescuer pulls out, administrator called in.
R Pankey's and TW Henrich's Piloting exercise physiology in the web-based environment.
N Pope's and E Forrest's A proposed format for the management of sport marketing websites.

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