Executive Support Systems: An Innovation Decision Perspective

Abstract

Executive use of information technology (IT) is spreading. These top managers are discovering the value of strategic information in the profitability and competitiveness of their companies. By delivering timely, concise, and relevant information directly to these executives, an executive support system (ESS) allows more effective analysis, control, planning, and decision making. Automated improvements to the management process have the potential to highly leverage the executive's effectiveness. An ESS is a concept, a clustered IT, and an innovation, especially to the executive user. A true ESS combines three areas of IT: decision support, personal productivity tools, and communications. Innovation-decision theory provides a theoretical framework to characterize the adoption of ESS. A better understanding of the key personal factors and related management issues positively affecting ESS adoption will help managers better anticipate and forestall problems before they begin. Theses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA220878

Entities

People

  • Vern E. Hasenstein

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Administration
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Mental Processes
  • Organizational Structure
  • Petroleum
  • Thinking

Fields of Study

  • Business
  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Systems Analysis and Design