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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Proaction Inst. – 1977
The final summary of the progress, accomplishments, findings, and recommendations of a project to develop and implement a management information system for long-range planning of vocational education at the local level is presented in this report. Goals and purposes of the original proposal are stated and their development traced in research, work…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Management Systems, Policy Formation
Download full textDepartment of Commerce, Washington, DC. – 1984
The first of two volumes, this document describes the planning process of a 5-year plan for meeting the telecommunications and automatic data processing (ADP) needs of the federal government, examines the planning efforts of several typical agencies, and explores issues involved in managing new technology as it evolves. For each agency,…
Descriptors: Automation, Data Processing, Federal Government, Information Science
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. – 1984
This volume, the second of two, presents and analyzes the information technology acquisition plans of the Federal Government by agency and component. A brief description covers the outlays planned for major information technology acquisitions of general purpose data processing and telecommunications systems, facilities, and related services for 6…
Descriptors: Automation, Data Processing, Federal Government, Information Science
Balkan, Lore; Sheldon, Philip – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1990
The offices of Information Resource Management and Institutional Research at Virginia Tech developed a set of guidelines for information management. This article describes the historical evolution, the forces that motivated the development of the guidelines, and the consensus-building activities that led to the acceptance of the guidelines.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Computer Software Development, Databases
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Assembly of Engineering. – 1976
This report addressed to policy making officials in local government deals with the role of federal assistance in future developments of information systems by local governments through an assessment of the Urban Information Systems Inter-Agency Committee (USAC) Program, which, beginning in 1970, provided grants to five municipalities--Charlotte,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Computer Science, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Tiedeman, David V. – 1972
Massachusetts' Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) arrays data for its dynamic simulation model, which decides educational and instructional policies at the state, school district, and classroom levels, according to this formula: Inputs/Process/Product/Impact. In this monograph linear programed models are…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Design Preferences, Economic Research
