A Hierarchical Approach to Information System Design
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MIT_CISR_WP_005_A_hierarchical_Approach_to_Information_System_Design_Donovan_Jacoby.pdf
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Author(s)
Donovan, John
Jacoby, Henry
Date Issued
January 1, 1975
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation
Donovan, John and Henry Jacoby. “A Hierarchical Approach to Information System Design.” Working paper 5, Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/175258.
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MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 762-75
CISR Working Paper 5
Abstract
This paper presents an approach to the development of management information systems that is particularly applicable to systems with the following characteristics: (1) several classes of users, each of which has a different degree of sophistication (2) complex and changing security requirements (3) data exhibits complex and changing inter-relationships (4) needs of the information system changing (5) must be built quickly and inexpensively (6) complex data validation requirements. The approach is hierarchical in that the functional tasks of the system are grouped and ordered such that each group depends only on functions of the group beneath it. Each grou is called a level. We maintain that not only does this approach facilitate the implementation of management information systems to fulfill the above needs but provides a sound theoretical basis for investigating properties of completeness, integrity, correctness, and performance. Some of these theoretical approaches are also presented. We also maintain that such hierarchical approaches, in general, provide a practical way of decomposing complex system designs into manageable implementation schemes.
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