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From: sjm@sequoia.UUCP (Steve Murchie)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems
Subject: Re: MBA seminar in Office Information Systems
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Date: 8 Jan 90 21:09:17 GMT
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In article: 90003.133030UH2@PSUVM.BITNET, Lee Sailer writes:
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>I trying to collect a broad array of ideas that cover the topic of
>Office Information Systems of the near future.  I am interested in current
>systems that corporations use, or that can be purchased from vendors, but
>I am more interested in ideas which lean toward
>the future.  I am building a sysllabus for an MBA seminar for non-specialists.
>Some topics I've considered so far include:
>
>Expert Systems ...
>
>Decision Support ...

You should also consider Executive Information Systems.  It's a hot
topic in the DSS arena, and probably very interesting to MBA students.
Hybrid DSS/ES applications are also a popular topic, more towards the
leading edge of things.

>..."Influence Analysis"  as represented by the software
>DAVID on the Mac.

There's also products like Lightyear (IBM PC) that are for
decision-tree analysis, and Stella (MAC) that do process simulation.

>Group DSS -- PARC's CoLab, Arizona'a GDSS lab system, and ???

Paul Gray is doing some interesting things at Claremont Graduate School,
and Jerry Wagner is back at it here in Austin.

>Technology -- I think that MBA students need some exposure to the underlying
>techniques.  Distributed database, OS, and file systems, and the communications
>sublayer.

Don't object-oriented programming systems.  Sure to be an important issue
over the next few years.

>What have I left out.  What's hot, and what's not.  What good articles and
>reference books can you recommend.  Why me?

For the EIS and DSS stuff, try:

"Executive Support Systems: The Emergence of Top Management Computer Use,"
John F. Rockart and David DeLong, Dow Jones Irwin, 1988.

"Decision Support and Expert Systems: Managerial Perspectives," Efraim
Turban, MacMillan, 1990.


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