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Download full textPorter, Dennis – 1990
This document addresses the recommendation contained in the 1989 California Strategic Plan for Adult Education for an integrated adult education data system. The recommendation proposes collecting and organizing community adult education information into groups of data on: program services, program delivery, learner characteristics, and learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Database Management Systems, Databases
Clark, Philip M. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Describes the use of online accounting systems as a means of integrating diverse data and providing different levels of analysis for managers. An appendix provides examples of reports produced by online systems. (CLB)
Descriptors: Accounting, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness
Owen, Darrell E. – Information Management Review, 1989
Presents a conceptual overview of information resources management (IRM) by synthesizing concepts put forward during the 1980s and charts opportunities to move these concepts into practice. It is argued that the reorganization required by IRM is justified by better use of resources, better decision making, and an improved corporate structure. (21…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Business, Database Management Systems, Decision Making
Peer reviewedCox, Bruce B. – Library Software Review, 1987
Discusses the context within which office automation takes place by using the models of the Science of Creative Intelligence and Transcendental Meditation. Organizational structures are compared to the phenomenon of the "collective consciousness" and the development of automated information systems from manual methods of organizational…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Database Management Systems, History, Information Scientists
Lindsay, John – 1985
Information systems design is at a crossroads of changes in technology (microcomputing, software engineering, and telecommunications) and the administration of social systems, of which urban and regional planning are a part. Training in information systems design will be beneficial to four distinct groups of people: clerical and technical staff;…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer System Design, Database Management Systems, Developing Nations
Lilly, Edward R. – 1986
In the past decade significant advances have taken place in the development of management information systems (MIS) to support managerial decision making. Recent literature has shown, however, that educators have yet to make full and efficient use of these computer-based systems. A number of authors have discussed factors that may affect…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Connecticut Regional Community Colleges, Hartford. Board of Trustees. – 1988
Developed in accordance with a legislative mandate, this master plan for Connecticut's regional community colleges provides baseline data on the current status of data processing; identifies issues, trends, and constraints; and sets forth specific plans for computing activities and services within the community college system. Introductory…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing
