SIGMIS

This two part paper explores management issues raised by expert systems (ES). In the first section, a brief history of ES is presented, and the competitive potential of ES is analyzed from a business policy perspective. The second section, appearing in ...

The debate regarding the impact of technology on work organization and the quality of work life is gaining momentum as a result of office automation and its influences on large numbers of "'office" jobs. This paper argues that current approaches to ...

The advancement of any field is accomplished largely by research directed at specific issues in that field. Research in management information systems (MIS) takes place, or is reported in (1) private studies that usually resuit in published articles, (2)...

As universities attempt to catch up with the demand to produce information systems (IS) faculty and reseachers, the field of IS will benefit from more and more timely research on key IS issues.

End-user computing, an environment where users develop applications for their own use, is growing at an astounding rate. This fast-paced growth is due primarily to the proliferation of microcomputers and the availability of end-user languages. However, ...

Understanding how people search and combine information to make decisions is an important concern in the study of decision making because people tend to search information consistent with the decision process employed. Thus, analysis of these search ...

An audit is a collection of judgments made about various accounting subsystems. Ultimately these judgments must be combined in order to issue a final opinion. As businesses become more complex, the number and type of subsystems increase, and the job of ...

As the number of information system users increase, we are witnessing a related increase in the complexity and diversity of their applications. This complexity amplifies the degree of functional and technical understanding required of the user to ...

Documentation constitutes a significant, primary interface between the individual whose job tasks are impacted by computer-based applications, and the application system or software package. The MIS literature has identified documentation as a factor ...

As the demand for software continues to rise faster than our ability to train new information systems professionals, we must seek to improve the productivity of software developers. Improvement of productivity in this context means producing the same ...

A major responsibility of systems designers and EDP auditors is to design and evaluate controls that increase the reliability of an information system. Fulfilling this responsibility is made more difficult by the rapid advances in computer technology ...

Information systems managers have identified training as an important management area because of the ever increasing availability of software for use by those who are not information systems professionals. Previous research in this domain indicates the ...

Inter-Organizational Information Systems (IOS) have recently been receiving attention as a means of providing strategic advantage to industry. The goals of this research are twofold: to create a tool to aid in determining whether it would be ...

This paper examines the use of Agency Theory and Information Economics Models to determine the types of information that should be used in an information system. Under examination is the payment system used by the federal government to reimburse ...

A user view is a representation of reality relevant to a particular user or group of users for a specific purpose. User views are particularly important to logical data base design because they dictate what data and relationships are to be made ...

In the past few years interest in creating expert systems (ESs) for businesses has dramatically increased. Although the number of publicized, commercial successes is small, the potential for augmenting human expertise with ESs is noteworthy. Vendors and ...

Various models have been proposed under the name of structured systems development. They are widely accepted by practising systems developers based of their simplicity of use and ease of communication. Because of the lack of a theoretical framework, ...

Computer generated presentation graphics have become a tool to aid in communicating management information, and have been credited with causing an audience to accept a point of view or take action. The problem is that technological capability has ...

Audit planning is a complex task which requires considerable expertise. An audit plan specifies both the procedures to be carried out and the extent to which these procedures should be applied. An audit plan is required to achieve a defined level of ...

The management science literature provides many techniques and models for multicriteria decision making (MCDM) that can be incorporated into a decision support system (DSS). The hypothesis of this research is that a non-numeric representation of ...