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作者:Martin, E. W.
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:A critical success factor is a key area where things must go right if an organization is to be successful. In order to better understand the management of the MIS area, we explore the critical success factors of a group of chief MIS managers in successful organizations. Knowledge of these critical success factors is useful to top management in understanding how to cope with and evaluate the MIS organization. Critical success factors are also helpful to MIS managers in improving their own perfo...
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作者:Ball, Leslie; Harris, Richard
作者单位:Babson College; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:This article discusses the results of a survey of SMIS members. Members were asked to respond to questions regarding demographics, their satisfaction with SMIS services, and the importance of eighteen management issues which MIS management might address. The article presents percentage results of individual questions and interprets the results of those questions. No attempt is made to use any bivariate statistics in this article. All questions asked on the survey are presented in this article.
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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:Ives, Blake
作者单位:Dartmouth College; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要:Proponents of computer graphics foresee them having a dramatic impact on decision maker productivity. The availability of inexpensive graphic computer technology permits organizations to rely extensively on graphics for standard information presentations. Despite the claims of the proponents, however, there is little substantial evidence linking the use of graphics with increased management productivity and/or higher quality decisions. Moreover, the use of powerful graphics capabilities by end...
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作者:Benjamin, Robert I.
摘要:This article describes a reasonable scenario for in technology, and its use within a major organization in the year 1990. The scenario is based upon a model used at Xerox to portray the use of Information Systems (IS) internally within the corporation in the year 1990. Assumptions are made about the technology and economics, and by coupling these with observed trend linos from historical data, predictions about the 1990 IS organization, technology, investment requirements, and support structur...
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作者:Kaiser, Kate M.; Bostrom, Robert P.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:Information systems for large firms are typically designed by a team comprised of both users and systems personnel. The Management Information System (MIS) literature discusses a communication gap between the organization oriented users and the more technical systems staff. It is often hypothesized that systems personnel and users are different in terms of personality and behavior characteristics and that these differences are one of the primary reasons for the existence of a communication gap...
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作者:Alavi, Maryam
作者单位:University of Houston System; University of Houston; Battelle Memorial Institute
摘要:This article describes a study performed to (1) investigate senior executives' perceptions of decision support systems concepts, and (2) identify executives' needs and desired benefits related to decision support systems. A series of indepth interviews was conducted with senior-level industrial executives. The findings suggest three guidelines for the design of effective decision support systems: (1) executive users should be directly involved in the development and evaluation of the initial d...
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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...
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作者:Shenolikar, Ashok
作者单位:L3Harris Technologies
摘要:Toward the beginning of 1980, PRO Electronics began developing a Management Information System (MIS) which would monitor the test activity at an Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) Station. This article describes the implementation of a novel MIS development strategy and explains the circumstances that influenced the decision to prepare a user's manual at the beginning of the system development cycle rather than at the end. The article further describes the management strategy of creating a Systems...