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| adam_text | EXCELLENCE IN INFORMA TION
SYSTEMS
A study of Information systems through the ages
PETER CLUVER PIROW
Woodacres Publishers 1988
Information System Series
Table of Contents
10A BRIEF HISTORY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1
1 1 Information 1
1 2 Machinery 9
1 3 Linking Machinery to Information 12
1 4 Mensuration 14
20A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESEARCH INTO THE SOCIAL AS-
PECTS 16
2 1 The Beginning 16
2 2 What About People? 17
2 3 The Concept of Computers and Society 17
2 4 The First Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC 1) 21
2 5 Early TC 9 Development 22
251 The scope and objectives of TC 9 23
2511 The scope 23
2512 The aims 23
252 The scope and objectives of WG 9 1 24
2521 The scope 24
2522 The aims 24
253 The scope and objectives of WG 9 2 24
2531 The scope 24
2532 The aims 25
254 Increasing interest in social accountability 25
255 The second international conference on human choice and com-
puters 26
2 6 TC 9 in the early 1980 s 27
2 7 TC 9 in the mid 1980 s 28
271 The third international conference on human choice and com-
puters 29
2 8 Research by TC 8 31
2 9 Computerisation Studies 31
3 0 THE MEASUREMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF COMPUTERS 32
3 1 Ab Initio Investigation 32
3 2 Studying Computer Installations 33
3 3 The Information System approach 34
3 4 Sampling 35
3 5 Representative Information Systems 36
3 6 Information Systems : a personal background 38
4 0 THE DEFINITION AND SELECTION OF INFORMATION
SYSTEMS: 41
4 1 The Definition of an Information System 41
4 2 Sampling Information Systems 42
4 3 The Collection of Cases 45
431 The local collection 45
432 The international collection 45
4 4 The Type of Case 47
4 5 The Assessment of System Effectiveness 49
4 6 Relating the Sample to the Population 53
4 7 How many Information Systems ? 53
4 8 Reconciliation with Other Research 55
4 9 The Profit Factor 56
5 0 AN ANALYSIS OF THE RECORD 59
5 1 The field or type of system 59
5 2 The Economic Area 65
521 Agriculture 65
522 Mining 66
523 Manufacture 66
524 Commerce 66
525 Service 66
526 Public utilities 66
527 Transport 67
528 Construction 67
5 3 The Complexity of the Information System 67
5 4 The Success of the System 68
5 5 Top Management Involvement 69
5 6 Functional, Management and Technical scores 70
561 The functional frequencies 71
562 The management frequencies 72
563 The technical frequencies 73
564 The frequencies for the total scores 74
5 7 Man-months Involved 75
5 8 Year First Operational 76
5 9 Machine Make, Model and Software used 78
5 10 Size of Computer 79
5 11 Strategic Grid 80
5 12 Online or Batch 80
5 13 Package or Inhouse 81
5 14 Computer-user Interaction 81
5 15 Bivariate Analyses 83
5 15 1 Are some computer suppliers more successful than others ? 83
5 15 2 Do suppliers specialise in specific fields ? 84
5 15 3 Do suppliers specialise in certain economic areas ? 85
5 15 4 Do some suppliers get more user interaction ? 85
5 15 5 Do micros have more success than mainframes ? 86
5 15 6 Do micros result in more user interaction ? 87
5 15 7 Are online information systems more successful than batch ? 87
5 15 8 Are package programmes more successful than inhouse ? 88
5 15 9 Has success increased over time ? 88
5 15 10 Has complexity increased over time ? 89
5 15 11 Have some fields been more successful ? 90
5 15 12 Do particular economic areas prefer certain applications ? 91
5 15 13 Does success result from more involvement ? 92
5 16 Further Analyses 92
6 0 AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TOWARDS A THEORETICAL
BASE 94
6 1 Hypothesis Testing 94
611 Proposition 1 (Golub s Law No l) 95
612 Proposition 2 (Golub s Law No 3) 96
613 Proposition 3 (Golub s Law No 7) 97
614 Proposition 4 (Golub s Law No 14) 98
615 Proposition 5 (Organisation and behaviour) 98
616 Proposition 6 (Participative design) 100
617 Proposition 7 (Methodologies and tools) 100
618 Proposition 8 (Planning) 101
619 Proposition 9 (Individualistic information systems) 102
6 1 10 Proposition 10 (Time to mount) 102
6 1 11 Proposition 11 (Technical sophistication) 102
6 1 12 Proposition 12 (Management skills) 103
6 1 13 Proposition 13 (Large volumes) 103
6 1 14 Proposition 14 (Decrease in tangible savings) 103
6 1 15 Proposition 15 (Redundancy) 103
6 1 16 Proposition 16 (Strategic grid) 104
6 2 Effectiveness of Hypothesis Testing 104
70A MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL 106
7 1 Selection of the Dependant Variable 106
7 2 An Empirical Definition of Effectiveness 107
7 3 Relationships Between the Various Measures of Profit 109
7 4 The Development of a Model Il l
741 Definition of a model Il l
742 Steps in constructing a model Il l
743 Non-linearity 112
744 Longitudinal aspects and prediction 113
7 5 The Linear Regression Model 114
7 6 Conclusions 115
8 0 AUTOMATION AND JOB CREATION 116
8 1 The Automation Problem 116
8 2 The Effects of Automation 117
8 3 Environmental Factors 118
831 National and regional : 118
832 Local influences 118
8321 Community and supplier inputs 119
8322 The nature of the product 119
8323 Demand for the product 119
8324 Present capabilities 120
833 Developing nations strategies 120
8 4 Information Systems and Jobs 120
841 Here come the robots 121
842 The Northern European Basketball Association (NEBA) 122
843 The Lesser Developed Country Drawing Office (LDCDO) 122
844 Planned retraining 122
85A Desirable Society 123
8 6 What Mechanisms will Create Jobs ? 123
8 7 Elaboration of the Concepts behind the Mechanisms 125
871 Education and training 125
872 Free enterprise 125
873 Small business 126
874 The creation of an export driven economy 126
875 Greater incentives for job creation 127
876 Cost reduction by automation 127
877 The remaining areas identified by the nominal group 127
8 8 Relationship between the Methodology and the Ideal 128
8 9 Interrelationships and the Time Frame 129
9 0 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AND INFORMATION 131
9 1 The Nature of Organisations 131
9 2 The Nature and Function of Communication 132
921 Formal versus informal communication 133
922 Media for formal communication 133
9221 Oral communications 133
9222 Memoranda and letters 133
9223 The Automatic Office 134
923 Informal communication 134
924 Some organisational dimensions 134
9 3 Frameworks for Information Systems 136
931 The need for a framework 136
932 The nature of decisions 136
933 Programmed and non-programmed decisions 137
9 4 Traditional Decision Making 138
941 Traditional techniques for programmed decisions 138
942 Traditional techniques for non-programmed decisions 138
9 5 Levels of Management Activity 139
951 Categories of activity 139
952 Anthony s three categories 140
9521 Strategic planning 140
9522 Management control 140
9523 Operational control 140
9 6 An Alternative Model 142
961 Paterson s framework 142
962 Policy decisions (Band E) 143
963 Programmed decisions (Band D) 143
964 Interpretive decisions (Band C) 143
965 Routine decisions (Band B) 144
966 Automatic decisions (Band A) 144
967 Defined decisions (Band O) 144
9 7 Systems and Decisions 144
9 8 The Use of Frameworks for Management Information 145
981 Data bank 145
982 Predictive information systems 146
983 Information systems structure 147
984 Combining the various frameworks 147
985 The Paterson model and the framework 148
986 Relationships in effective decisions 150
9 9 Anthony and Paterson Compared 150
9 10 New Concepts for Organisations 151
10 0 DATABASES IN THE MINING ENVIRONMENT 152
10 1 Background 152
10 2 Database Technology 152
10 3 Mineral Data and Mining 153
10 4 An Analysis of the Cases 154
10 5 Structure of a Database 155
10 5 1 Overall systems plan (Phase 1) 155
10 5 2 Conceptual level analysis (Phase 2) 157
10 6 The Technique for an Overall Data Model 160
10 7 Selecting the Data Base Structure 163
10 7 1 Network database systems 163
10 7 2 Hierarchical database systems 163
10 7 3 Relational database systems 164
10 7 4 Normalisation 165
10 7 5 Un-normalised data 166
10 7 6 First normal form 168
10 7 7 Second normal form 169
10 7 8 Third normal forms 169
10 7 9 Higher normal forms 171
10 8 Completion of the Overall Model 172
10 9 Implementation 172
10 10 The Data Resource 173
10 11 Recommendations 174
10 11 1 The DBMS 174
10 12 Simplicity 174
10 12 1 Organisational considerations 175
11 0 COMPUTERACY 176
11 1 Background 176
11 2 Observations 176
11 3 Terms 177
11 4 Examining Computer Literacy 178
11 5 Computeracy 179
11 5 1 Testing elementary computer literacy 180
11 52A Theoretical Framework for Computeracy 181
11 6 Numeracy 182
11 7 Functional Computeracy 183
11 8 How do we become Functionally Computerate? 184
11 9 Hacking 186
11 9 1 Who is the hacker ? 186
11 9 2 The educational challenge 187
11 10 Multidimensional 187
11 11 Levels of Computeracy 188
11 11 1 A ten point scale - 188
11 11 2 The measurement of the levels 189
11 12 Recommendations 190
11 13 Summary 191
12 0 COMPUTERACY AND RESEARCH 192
12 1 Background 192
12 2 Computers and Research 192
12 3 What is Research Computeracy ? 194
12 4 Research Methodology 194
12 4 1 Experimental methodology (Directly controlled research) 195
12 411 Definition amp; characteristics of an experiment 195
12 412 Types of experiment 196
12 413 Laboratory experiments 196
12 414 The field experiment 196
12 4 2 Multivariate methods (indirect control) 197
12 4 3 Analysis 198
12 5 The Level Required by Researchers 198
12 5 1 Data capture 198
12 5 2 Data analysis 200
12 6 The Level of Computeracy 201
12 7 Conclusion 202
13 0 HOW TO BUILD EFFECTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS 203
13 1 Why are there so many Ineffectual Information Systems ? 203
13 2 Effective Systems 203
13 3 Make and Model of Computer 204
13 3 1 Hardware failure 204
13 3 2 Hardware acquisition 204
13 3 3 Impact of the acquisition 205
13 4 Optimum Increment Analysis 206
13 5 Size of Computer 207
13 6 Interactive or Batch? 208
13 7 Use of Packages 209
13 8 Field of Information System 210
13 8 1 Accounting and finance 210
13 811 Debtors 210
13 812 Creditors 211
13 813 General ledger 211
13 814 Financial analysis systems 211
13 815 Banking and building society applications 212
13 8 2 Marketing 212
13 821 Sales order entry 212
13 822 Sales management 212
13 823 Advertising and promotion 213
13 824 Market research 213
13 8 3 Production planning and research 214
13 831 Production scheduling 214
13 832 Production planning 214
13 833 Computer aided design and manufacturing 214
13 8 4 Materials control 215
13 841 Stores and inventory control 215
13 842 Material movement and transport logistics 215
13 8 5 Payroll and personnel 215
13 851 Payroll 215
13 852 Personnel 215
13 8 6 Planning and research 216
13 861 Integrated packages 216
13 862 Decision support systems 216
13 863 Other 216
13 9 Complexity 217
13 10 Top Management Involvement 217
13 11 Computer-User Interaction 217
13 12 Conclusion 218
13 13 Implications for the User 219
13 14 The Testing of Hypotheses and Propositions 220
14 0 EXCELLENCE IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS 221
14 1 Paradigm Formulation • 221
14 2 An Excellence Paradigm 221
14 3 The Requirements for an Excellent System 222
14 4 Orthogonal Conflicts 223
14 5 Selection of Scales to Maximise Stochastic Independence - 224
14 6 Practical Plotting 224
14 7 Paradigm Optimality 225
14 8 Longitudinal Analyses 225
14 9 Maturation Areas 227
15 0 Appendix 1, The application evaluation form 228
16 0 Appendix 2, A Computeracy Quiz 233
17 0 BIBLIOGRAPHY 249
18 0 Index 265
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