Strategic Information Systems

As to the Decision Support System (DSS) and Management Support System (MSS) designations, they are often used for SIS or IPS/SIP, or, ambiguously, as subsystems of SIS or IPS/SIP, or, to bedevil the matter further, as the overall conceptual systems embracing SIS, MIS, and/or IPS/SIP. IBM's Business System Planning (BSP) is touted by its makers as a comprehensive planning methodology - which encompasses SIS. We noted that, whereas MIS is mentioned in the four management dictionaries we consulted, SIS does not appear in any of them. In the light of this not only lexicographical but conceptual confusion with regards to the neologisms of the information sciences - or, rather Information Systems (IS) - we have adhered to the notion that every sen

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ct that, as Lee and Adams (1990) note, "IS executives are burdened with traditional IS management problems such as ensuring their systems' uptime, project management, and program maintenance." Yet, "virtually all top-level information system (IS) executives have heard of the strategic successes of American Airlines' SABRE, American Hospital Supply Corporation's Analytic Systems Automated Purchasing (ASAP), and Foremost McKesson's ECONOMOST." If the SIS design team must involve from top executives to operational employees, the ultimate source of useful information is the end-user. Founder and Chairman of highly successful VeriFone, Inc. ($150M annual revenues, 1 200 employees) believes (as reported by Mellon, 1991) that "real intelligence - the information you need to understand and solve business problems - is in the frontiers...It's with the customers, on the manufacturing floors, with the component vendors. It's not sitting back at headquarters office...Programs run better when you have tight, fast loops...A lot of people in the company didn't have a desk, but I made sure everyone had a P.C." Electronic mail quickly became the main medium of communication. Strategic systems - whether carrying information or organizing service
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