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The Results

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The principal aim of the survey, as described in the previous chapter, was to identify management’s information needs. This aim has been achieved. In addition there were a number of other benefits, which fall into four categories:

  1. (a)

    Information needs that ought to be satisfied.

  2. (b)

    The approach that should be taken to meet them.

  3. (c)

    A new approach to information system design.

  4. (d)

    The interrelationship between information flows and decision structure.

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Bentley, T.J. (1981). The Results. In: Making Information Systems Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03955-5_8

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