Excerpt from Management Information Systems and the Management Process: New Directions In order to introduce my subject, I would like for a moment to spend a few minutes on the assumptions behind the various issues that I will take up. Some of these assumptions may appear on the surface to be obvious, but their consequences may not. So a brief discussion may help our understand ing of the issues involved and also provide a rationale for the transition from present to future systems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.