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作者：Ein-Dor, Phillip; Segev, Eli
作者单位：Tel Aviv University
摘要：An empirical investigation of some relationships between organizational context and MIS structure is reported. The major findings are that MIS structure is significantly correlated with organizational structure which, in turn, is closely associated with organizational size. Additional relationships were found between organizational size and the rank of the MIS director, between implementor/user relationships and psychological climate toward MIS, and between the last two variables and degree of...
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作者：McLeod, Raymond, Jr.; Fuerst, William L.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA
摘要：MIS managers generally have not stressed the marketing aspects of their operations. A more widespread concern is with the shortage of systems analyst and programmer resources. In an effort to learn how one group of MIS managers views their marketing responsibilities and practices in a shortage era, a study was conducted and the results were used to describe both short term and long term MIS marketing plans. These plans are developed by identifying critical areas in the organization in light of...
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作者：Crawford, A. B., Jr.
摘要：Extending the ARPANET technology of an asynchronous, packet-switched electronic mailbox, the Corporate Information Systems department introduced a pilot mail service within Digital Equipment Corporation which has now grown into a full-fledged production system with some 6,000 users - and is still growing. The architecture for the Electronic Mail System (EMS) is based on a multinode network of dedicated minicomputers. Technical, administrative and human factors, and cost considerations were rec...
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作者：Naumann, Justus D.; Jenkins, A. Milton
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Leading MIS executives and academicians have identified systems development as one of the most critical issues of the 1980s. Their concerns include providing user accessibility to stored information, reducing development cost and delay, increasing developer productivity, and increasing MIS's impact on organizational growth, productivity, and profitability. Among (the number of proposed alternative approaches to traditional systems development, prototyping is mentioned frequently. Prototyping i...
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作者：Loftin, R. D.; Moosbruker, J. M.
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Harvard University; Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Boston College
摘要：The work presented in this article relates directly to perhaps the most serious problem facing the Information Systems manager in a large, complex organization today, namely how to plan and manage in a rapidly changing, high-demand, resource-limited environment. The article describes an organizational change effort undertaken within a major data processing organization to seek improvements in four broad areas: data center production performance, responsiveness of the systems development activi...
