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Using Management Objectives to Specify Management Information Systems — A Contribution to MIS Success

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Data warehouse projects, today, are in an ambivalent situation. On the one hand, data warehouses are critical for a company’s success and various methodological and technological tools are sophisticatedly developed to implement them. On the other hand, a significant amount of data warehouse projects fails due to non-technical reasons such as insufficient management support or in-corporative employees. But management support and user participation can be increased dramatically with specification methods that are understandable to these user groups. This paper aims at overcoming possible non-technical failure reasons by introducing a user-adequate specification approach within the field of management information systems.

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This work has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), record no. 01HW0196.

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Becker, J., Dreiling, A., Ribbert, M. (2003). Using Management Objectives to Specify Management Information Systems — A Contribution to MIS Success. In: Uhr, W., Esswein, W., Schoop, E. (eds) Wirtschaftsinformatik 2003/Band II. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57445-0_16

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