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PROPOSED RESEARCH ON MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS by N. C. Churchill, C. H. Kriebel and A. C. Stedry

October.,

1965

This report was prepared as part of the activities of the Management Sciences Research Group, Carnegie Institute of Technology, under Contract Nonr 760(24), NR 047-048 with the U. S. Office of Naval Research and under a Ford Foundation Grant. Reproduction in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose of the U. S. Government.

MANAGEMENT SCIENCES RESEARCH GROUP MANROEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROJECT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15213

PROPOSED RESEARCH ON MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Introduction

This report is not intended as a survey of ongoing research in the area of "information systems"--although such projects will. be alluded to occasionally. It is an outline of some areas in which research

seems necessary and a statement of research activity which the authors and their associates plan to follow. This research is detailed below

and is based upon preliminary investigations which indicate the feasibility of certain approaches to information system problems. The

prelininary work has revealed many areas in which knowledge is virtually non-existent--and areas which are of increasing importance to management. The cost of this lack of knowledge is one of foregone opportunities--of lost profit and of unnecessary expense. In order to provide a focus in this report which avoids proliferation of examples and terminology, we have concentrated our attention on management information systems in connection with their use in managerial decision making. We have tended also to emphasize

areas in which current and readily

References: Applied Dynamic Programming, May, 1962.