The Determination of User Information Requirements during the Development of Management Information Systems.

Abstract

One of the major causes for the failure of Management Information Systems (MIS) is that these do not satisfy the user's information requirements. This, in turn, is most often caused by the fact that those requirements are difficult to obtain accurately and completely. Simply asking the user what he needs is inadequate. This thesis reviews the Information Requirements Analysis literature, briefly describing some of the techniques available for determining the users' information requirements. It then reports on a survey which attempted to investigate the degree to which the extensive MIS literature involving information requirements determination has had practical impact on the way in which MIS's are actually developed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA132998

Entities

People

  • Paul Richard Gardella Jr

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Cognition
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Delphi Method
  • Functional Analysis
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Management Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Observation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Simulations
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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