Seven papers from the 1987 CAUSE conference's Track II, Innovative Management, are presented. They include: "Is This Creative, or What!" (Kenneth C. Blythe); "Joint Application Design: Can a User Committee Design a System in Four Days?" (Diane Kent, David Smithers); "Making It Happen without Appropriation" (Robert E. Roberson); "Prototypes and Simulations as Decision Tools: Increasing the Software Implementation Success Ratio" (Elliott J. Haugen and Brian D. Nedwek); "Administrative and Strategic Computing" (Ronald L. Moore and Frank B. Thomas); "Stanford Jumps to the '90s--Distributed Programming, Promising or Premature?" (David J. Ernst); and "The Director Dons the Banker's Cap, or, Need a PC? Have I Got a Deal for You!" (Arthur Brooks). (LB)