These proceedings present 3 invited papers, 65 submitted papers, and 17 presentations on work in progress that were given at the Fourth International Conference on Information Systems Development. The three invited papers are: "Information Systems Planning in Small Business" (Georgios Doukidis, Panagiotis Lybereas, Robert D. Galliers); "Development of Information Systems To Support Electronic Commerce" (Joze Gricar); and "The Evolution of the Information Systems Field: The Impact of Technology on the Teaching and Practice of Information Systems Development" (A. Milton Jenkins). The remaining papers are grouped into the following areas: (1) modelling; (2) system development; (3) organizational aspects; (4) strategy planning; (5) applications; (6) reengineering; (7) case tools; (8) specific aspects of information engineering; (9) quality; (10) requirements of engineering and system specification; (11) education; (12) special aspects and comparisons; (13) computer-supported cooperative work; (14) technical aspects of information systems design; and (15) reports on work in progress. (SLD)