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This volume explores the group approach to decision support systems. Thierauf explains the principles of group decision support systems, demonstrates their practical applications, and describes methods that can be used to design effective group decision support systems.

One of the first books to probe the latest direction in computing technology, this innovative text explores ways in which smart business systems can help pick the best, most optimal, or near-optimal solutions from among hundreds, even thousands of possibilities that threaten to swamp organizational decision makers daily. Well-illustrated with examples and discussions of typical applications in such areas as strategic planning, marketing, manuf...

On-line analytical processing (OLAP) is an approach to information system technology which provides users with rapid retrieval of data from organizational databases and data warehouses. This text looks at the way OLAP works and its benefits to aid users in the public and private sectors.

Thierauf's work develops a number of interesting and potentially useful approaches to management information systems (MIS) practice. The author presents a number of techniques (some well known, others more recent) that practicing MIS managers may adopt to facilitate effective MIS planning for the 1990's by focusing on problem finding rather than on problem solving. A primary recommendation of Thierauf's is the restructuring of the MIS organiza...

This text examines the role of image processing systems in business and the use of computer technology to solve paper processing and storage problems. Such systems save physical space by capturing documents initially on an electronic medium which is tailored to user needs.

Expert systems, problem-solving computer programs that contain the encoded knowledge of experts in a specific application area such as financial planning, represent a turning point in how the typical organization utilizes its computer environment. This volume looks at its uses.

Today's MIS manager must understand and apply the latest thinking on the crucial management functions: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. Moreover, not only must managers understand the research-based foundations underlying this thinking, they must also know how to leverage the new MIS technologies and incorporate them into it. Thierauf's new book guides managers through the technology/managerial function interface, explains lat...

The most useful hardware and software are fully detailed, along with various approaches to system development. A master case study is used to illustrate practical applications of strategic planning, marketing, manufacturing, finance, and personnel within an EIS environment.

This book is designed to help MIS and information center managers and their staffs to efficiently and cost effectively meet the needs of end-users in their organizations. Focusing on managerial aspects of information centers, Robert J. Thierauf explores the ways in which new information technology--spreadsheets, query languages, report writers, word processing, etc.--can be placed in the hands of end-users without the interdepartmental conflic...

The power of the computer can be an important means to assist managers in doing what they do better when employing a creative computer software approach. This text looks at a number of areas that are impacted by creativity, with special emphasis on creative computer software.

Focuses on the essentials of knowledge management, business intelligence, and smart business systems. This publication highlights the shortcomings of information systems. It explores a holistic approach to exploring an organization's opportunities and solving its problems. It also looks at connecting points of wisdom.

Virtual reality - one of the most advanced and exciting technologies to emerge in recent decades - offers businesspeople a new way to grasp information and use it quickly and effectively. This book offers a detailed analysis of how it works, why it is valuable and where it is going.

Offers an insight into those elements of electronic data interchange systems that have relevant applications to finance and accounting. The author cites various case studies explaining the development and implementation of EDI systems and examines both hardware and software.