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The use of on-line retrieval systems as an aid for decision making

The decline in the cast of computing has put new decision making tools based on mathematical models and statistical formulae within the grasp of a wide range of commercial organisations. However, mathematical models have their limitations in a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Serge Lustac

June 15, 1980

Developing user information requirements

A methodology is developed in this paper to meet the complexity of identifying information requirements at top management level. The main problems with such a methodology are, firstly, to find a strategy for determining the essential information...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Ritva Rautkylä

June 15, 1980

Interactive service to management

The availability of advanced techniques provides job satisfaction for analytical staff and the use of such techniques provides the information needed by management to maintain a competitive edge. The use of these techniques is usually by specialist...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Elisabeth W. de Bruyn

June 15, 1980

C.M.I.S.A

Coordinated Management Information Systems is basically a service organization specializing in Information Systems designed to assist Sales/Marketing management in decision making. Through a combination of people, analytical techniques and computer...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Sydney Toledano

June 15, 1980

Numerical data banks

Only comparatively recently has informatics been accepted as a science in its own right and its content and boundaries are still unsettled. In effect, the definition of the term informatics is still being argued between experts both at national and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Marcello Colantoni

June 15, 1980

An experiment in building a marketing information system

In this paper we describe how we tried to solve a marketing information system need. First, we explain why we were gradually convinced it was necessary. The second step in our thinking was to list all the data we had and wanted to integrate in it....

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Authors: Françoise Rostand, Marc Olive

June 15, 1980

The application of a long and medium term M.M.I.S.A.T Colgate-Palmolive

Only a flexible, sophisticated and scientifically based system can give a satisfactory answer all sides can agree to and use as rational guidelines for the future. Colgate- Palmolive utilizes a MMIS to analyse the effect of its marketing-mix and to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Janine Rouas

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1980

How to communicate with your programmer

The users of management information systems and the designers and programmers of such systems live in different worlds; they have different backgrounds, skills and motivations. As a result communication between the two groups can be difficult....

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Richard W. Hill

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1980

The exporient data bank

The EXPORIENT data bank became operational in 1979 within the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/GATT with a view to collecting and processing rapidly and systematically foreign trade data on a large number of countries and to facilitating the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Bernard Angel

June 15, 1980