Topics: Managing the rapid changes in information technology (IT); Emerging advances in IT and its new applications; Implications of digital convergence; Managing national information infrastructure; Advances in encryption; Jurisdiction in cyberspace; Managing networks; Intelligent organisations; Digital convergence and growth of IT; Management of corporate networks; IT and network organisations; Organisational barriers to implementing IT; IT and electronic governance; Enterprise resource models; Enterprise knowledge management; Knowledge repositories; Customer relationship management and IT; Knowledge economy; Intelligent agents; Diffusion of IT; Distributed software development; Knowing machines; IT and new forms of organisations; Intellectual property rights in IT; IT and gene mapping revolution; Future of IT; Social informatics; IT clusters; Management and geographic information; Geographic Information Systems

Topics: Future enterprise; Lean enterprise; Factory of the future; New types of manufacturing organisations; Globalisation; Change management; Changes in manufacturing organisational structure; Business of process systems engineering; The fractal company; Agile manufacturing; Biological manufacturing systems (BMS); Autonomous and distributed manufacturing systems (ADMS); Engineering process and the virtual enterprise; Manufacturing innovation; Manufacturing strategy, policy and economics; Product development and production management; Design for manufacture and assembly; Integration in manufacturing systems; Decentralisation and ''de-verticalisation'' in production management; Micro-electronic manufacturing systems and embedded software; High-precision manufacturing for mmm-wave components; Outsourcing; The supply chain; supplier partnership in manufacture; Production planning, scheduling and control

Topics: Services technology, management and technology management: policy, strategic and operational issues; Services and innovation;Information technology and communication in services; E-commerce;Supply chain management; New developments in marketing and retailing; Human resources and development in services; Customer care; TQM, services quality; Distribution and logistics; Ecologically driven services;Economics of services;Services in society, ethics and culture

Interactive knowledge media and their management; New technologies for delivery of education, such as: multimedia, CD-ROMs, videoconferencing, Internet and Intranet, satellites and other communication systems; Continuing engineering education and the learning organisation; Case studies and experiences in engineering education and lifelong learning; Virtual laboratories; The nature of continuing engineering education; Government policy relating to continuing engineering education

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