Description: Preface This work presents a unified treatment of the use of data to influence, by design, prespecified outcomes in the behavior of entities in the public sector as well as in the private sector. It eschews the indiscriminate automating of data processing in the name of "information," and insists on evaluating the use by management of the insights generated, instead of being awed by the number and variety of computer printouts generated. Yesterday's data can affect today's decision-making to change tomor- row's outcome when the past data are used to project future behavior, making forecasting for control the indispensable characteristic of Man- agement Information System (MIS): not completeness, timeliness, or accuracy, none of which can be achieved in an absolute sense when the latest data are yesterday's, the earliest decision is today's, and the earliest outcome is tomorrow's. This incompleteness is underscored in the suggested new phrase Incomplete Information System (IIS), a phrase which should caution the user against the impossibility of completeness of any infor- mation system. Parenthetically, if everything that needs to be known about the decision situation is "completely" tabulated and manipulated in multiple copies of a computer printout, that ensures the uselessness of the user's "decision-making." Part I discusses MIS (IIS) dimensions. Every decision-maker needs to xi
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Publication Year: 1979
Type: Textbook
Format: Book
Subject Area: Information Management
Language: English
Publication Name: Management Information Systems
Author: George K. Chacko
Level: College
Subject: Management, Technology
