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'This book outlines a new way of approaching the development and implementation of information systems. Not only does the book explore a different approach to determining an organization's opportunities and solving its problems, but it also highlights methods for optimal decision making'--Provided by publisher.

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9781599040165 | Idea Group Pub, May 5, 2006, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: 'This book outlines a new way of approaching the development and implementation of information systems.

Paperback:

9781599040172 | Idea Group Pub, May 5, 2006, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: 'This book outlines a new way of approaching the development and implementation of information systems.

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Product Description: One of the first books to probe the latest direction in computing technology, Thierauf's and Hoctor's innovative text explores ways in which smart business systems can help pick the best, most optimal or near-optimal solutions from among hundreds, even thousands of possibilities that threaten to swamp organizational decision makers daily...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781567205435 | Praeger Pub Text, January 1, 2003, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: One of the first books to probe the latest direction in computing technology, Thierauf's and Hoctor's innovative text explores ways in which smart business systems can help pick the best, most optimal or near-optimal solutions from among hundreds, even thousands of possibilities that threaten to swamp organizational decision makers daily.

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Product Description: One step above knowledge management systems are business intelligence systems. Their purpose is to give decision makers a better understanding of their organization's operations, and thus another way to outmaneuver the competition, by helping to find and extract the meaningful relationships, trends, and correlations that underlie the organization's operations and ultimately contribute to its success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781567203707 | Praeger Pub Text, June 30, 2001, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: One step above knowledge management systems are business intelligence systems.

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Product Description: Until now, business systems have focused on selected data within a certain context to produce information. A better approach, says Thierauf, is to take information accompanied by experience over time to generate knowledge. He demonstrates that knowledge management systems can be used as a source of power to outmaneuver business competitors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781567202182 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 1999, cover price $138.00 | About this edition: Until now, business systems have focused on selected data within a certain context to produce information.

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Product Description: On-line analytical processing (OLAP) is clearly a new approach to information system technology―offering a much-needed way to make informed decisions better and faster. One of its most important characteristics is multidimensional analysis―analysis that goes beyond the conventional two-dimensional analysis and provides users with rapid retrieval of data from organizational databases, data warehouses, or both...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781567200997 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 1997, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: On-line analytical processing (OLAP) is clearly a new approach to information system technology―offering a much-needed way to make informed decisions better and faster.

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Product Description: Today's MIS manager must understand and apply the latest thinking on the crucial management functions: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. Moreover, not only must managers understand the research-based foundations underlying this thinking, they must also know how to leverage the new MIS technologies and incorporate them into it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780899308388 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 1994, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Today's MIS manager must understand and apply the latest thinking on the crucial management functions: planning, organizing, directing, and controlling.

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Product Description: Current thinking about how to improve strategic planning (now upgraded to strategic thinking) and decision making by managers at all levels is to employ some aspect of information systems technology. Although this approach has worked well for most organizations, chief executives are now asking their managers to do what they do best but to do it better...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780899307589 | Praeger Pub Text, January 1, 1993, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Current thinking about how to improve strategic planning (now upgraded to strategic thinking) and decision making by managers at all levels is to employ some aspect of information systems technology.

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Product Description: This work highlights the coming age of management information systems for all types of executives by focusing on executive information systems, or EIS. Serving as a data-intensive system, an EIS offers a snapshot of a company's past and present operations as a way of predicting the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780899305981 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1991, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This work highlights the coming age of management information systems for all types of executives by focusing on executive information systems, or EIS.

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Product Description: One of the most important trends in information systems today is the increasing use of electronic data interchange whereby paper is replaced by electronic communication for transactions between companies. Written for financial and accounting professionals as well as the MIS managers with whom they interface, this book offers a comprehensive discussion of the elements of EDI systems that are particularly useful in finance and accounting applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780899305424 | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1990, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: One of the most important trends in information systems today is the increasing use of electronic data interchange whereby paper is replaced by electronic communication for transactions between companies.

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Product Description: Expert systems--problem-solving computer programs that contain the encoded knowledge of experts in a specific application area such as financial planning--represent a crucial turning point in how the typical organization utilizes its computer environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780899304762 | Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 1990, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Expert systems--problem-solving computer programs that contain the encoded knowledge of experts in a specific application area such as financial planning--represent a crucial turning point in how the typical organization utilizes its computer environment.

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Product Description: Written primarily for information systems managers, systems analysts, and end users who interface with them, this volume explores the group approach to decision support systems. As Thierauf points out, group decision making enhances the effectiveness of overall organizational decision making by eliminating some of the shortcomings--particularly the potential for uncorrected error--of individual decision making...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780899304090 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 1989, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Written primarily for information systems managers, systems analysts, and end users who interface with them, this volume explores the group approach to decision support systems.

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Product Description: Thierauf's work develops a number of interesting and potentially useful approaches to management information systems (MIS) practice. The author presents a number of techniques (some well known, others more recent) that practicing MIS managers may adopt to facilitate effective MIS planning for the 1990's by focusing on problem finding rather than on problem solving...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780899303468 | Praeger Pub Text, December 1, 1988, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Thierauf's work develops a number of interesting and potentially useful approaches to management information systems (MIS) practice.

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Product Description: Following Thomas Fuller's dictum that a danger foreseen is half avoided, Thierauf has developed a technique called problem finding which allows corporate planners to go beyond problem solving to confront future problems and identify future opportunities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780899302621 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1987, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Following Thomas Fuller's dictum that a danger foreseen is half avoided, Thierauf has developed a technique called problem finding which allows corporate planners to go beyond problem solving to confront future problems and identify future opportunities.

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Product Description: Book by Thierauf, Robert J.

Hardcover:

9780675207454 | 2 sub edition (Merrill Pub Co, May 1, 1987), cover price $66.00 | About this edition: Book by Thierauf, Robert J.

Uses questionnaires to evaluate system and managerial performance, discusses general and applications controls, and suggests management guidelines

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9780029330203 | Free Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Uses questionnaires to evaluate system and managerial performance, discusses general and applications controls, and suggests management guidelines

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Product Description: Book by Thierauf, Robert J.

Hardcover:

9780675099882 | Merrill Pub Co, January 1, 1982, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Book by Thierauf, Robert J.

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Product Description: Presents the actual procedures used in analyzing and designing systems for a manufacturing firm.

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9780138812195 | Prentice Hall, March 1, 1975, cover price $45.00 | also contains Flex & Bison | About this edition: Presents the actual procedures used in analyzing and designing systems for a manufacturing firm.

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