Systems Analysis and Design
Preparing IS professionals for a rapidly changing world: the challenge for IS educators
SIGCPR '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference on Computer personnel research
Collaborative modeling techniques to facilitate communication among end-users and analysts
SIGCPR '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGCPR conference on Supporting teams, groups, and learning inside and outside the IS function reinventing IS
SIGCPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
An information system involving competing organizations
Communications of the ACM
Designing in the dark: the changing user-developer relationship in information systems development
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
Cycle time reduction: concepts and case studies
Communications of the AIS
Conversation about Software Requirements with Prototypes and Scenarios
NGITS '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
Executive information systems in Spain: a study of current practices and comparative analysis
Decision making support systems
Critical factors in the development of executive systems: leveraging the dashboard approach
Decision making support systems
Improving information requirements determination: a cognitive perspective
Information and Management
Requirements Elicitation Driven by Interviews: The Use of Viewpoints
IWSSD '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Something for nothing: management rejection of open source software in Australia's top firms
Information and Management
Organizational learning during advanced system development: opportunities and obstacles
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Using group support systems and joint application development for requirements specification
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Organizational impact of group support systems, expert systems, and executive information systems
Integrated decision support systems: A data warehousing perspective
Decision Support Systems
Stopping Behavior of Systems Analysts During Information Requirements Elicitation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Quantitative assessment of enterprise resource planning software customisation
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Something for nothing: management rejection of open source software in Australia's top firms
Information and Management
Measuring data warehousing success: an empirical investigation applying the DeLone and McLean model
International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies
Proceedings of the 49th SIGMIS annual conference on Computer personnel research
Interview patterns for requirements elicitation
REFSQ'11 Proceedings of the 17th international working conference on Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality
Determining information requirements for an EIS
MIS Quarterly
A User-Oriented Model of Factors that Affect Information Requirements Determination Process Quality
Information Resources Management Journal
Silver Pellets for Improving Software Quality
Information Resources Management Journal
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Most managers spend half their time trying to get the information they need, whether it be informally through meetings, phone conversations, or reading, or formally through organizational computer-based information. During this process they have to sift through a great deal of useless information, a situation commonly referred to as "information overload" With the proliferating capabilities and plummeting cost of computers, it seems relief should be in sight for weary executives. Unfortunately, most information systems-formal or informal- do not meet executive needs. Indeed, most new systems require extensive revision (after they are supposedly completed) to even partially fulfill needs. This is a terrible loss. Most systems are expensive enough to develop. They are even more expensive to revise. As the pace of business accelerates, decisions that could wait for weeks must now be made in days, hours, or even minutes. Failure to get executives the information they need in a timely manner can result in lost opportunities or in a problem not being solved in time. Increasingly, executives have little reaction time to make decisions on pricing, product introduction, resource allocation, media inquiries, response to competition, and mergers. They need access to information without waiting several weeks or months for a computer project. Why can't executives and system designers work together to more correctly anticipate and determine information requirements? In this article, four reasons information requirements are not met are discussed, and four straightforward solutions executives can use to solve this problem are offered.