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作者：Davis, Charles K.; Wetherbe, James C.
作者单位：International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA; Occidental Petroleum Corporation; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：Distributed Data Processing (DDP) is examined from a technological, organizational, and economic perspective. DDP projections are made for the 1980's as are recommendations for capitalizing on and minimizing the risks of this emerging technology.
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作者：Davis, Richard K.
摘要：This paper describes the evolution of a planning and budgeting decision support system. The system supports farm program planning and budgeting within the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Online interactive techniques are used through the Foresight planning and System 2000 database software. Numerous extensions of these techniques are formulated and comparisons made with industry. The study probes the nature of the system development p...
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作者：McNeil, D. H.
作者单位：International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA
摘要：Technical managers of MIS appear to have only two problems: End user requirements continually evolve; Vendor product offerings are in constant flux. In other words, everything is subject to somewhat unpredictable change from all sides at once. This is the quintessence of unmanageability. The excitement and adventure of the situation are more than offset by the excessive costs of development and maintenance which accrue to those who are trying to provide an MIS of consistently high quality. One...
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作者：Fowler, F. Parker, Jr.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：The failure of the MIS idea to achieve its ultimate goal of informing managers rests in the single wrong assumption that the manager can define his information needs prior to the time for decision making. If the assumption were true, then management could be implemented by automata. Because it is not true, the conventional MIS maximum capability is to produce hackneyed status reports based upon technocrats' perceptions of what the manager needs; its minimum capability is coughing up answers to...
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作者：Dickson, Gary W.
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作者：McLean, E. R.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Procter & Gamble
摘要：The demand for new or expanded computer-based information systems far exceeds the capacity of present DP organizations to meet this demand. Assuming that a massive expansion of DP personnel is not feasible, one solution is to make existing computer professionals more productive; and efforts in this direction have met with a fair measure of success. Another approach is to allow end users to function as their own developers. In this way, the programmer middle man is eliminated and users can crea...
