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Original Articles

Information Management and DSS-oriented Computerization in a Government Agency

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Pages 139-154 | Published online: 31 May 2012
 

ABSTRACT

The authors have participated in the information management of a Government Agency during a period of more than five years. In this period, an explicit review of information management took place, and a new DSS-oriented approach to computerization was developed. In this article, they describe why an information management policy aimed at an equilibrium of centralized coordination and decentralized management failed to be implemented. Because of this failure, two competing strategies emerged: the centralistic bureaucratic computerization strategy and the decentralistic DSS-oriented computerization strategy. Based on their experiences, the authors demonstrate that several objections against DSS-oriented computerization are invalid. Furthermore, they show that DSS-oriented computerization leads to a significantly lower computerization cost level than bureaucratic computerization.

RÉSUMÉ

Les auteurs du présent article ont participé pendant plus de cinq ans à l'informatisation d'un service public. Une évaluation précise leur a permis de développer une approche nouvelle de l' automation orientée système d'aide à la décision. Cet article présente d'abord les raisons de l'échec d'une stratégie d'informatisation qui avait pour but un équilibre entre coordination centralisée et management décentralisé. De cet échec découlèrent par la suite deux stratégies concurrentes: l'une, centraliste et bureaucratique, l'autre, décentralisée et orientée DSS. En s'appuyant sur leur expérience, les auteurs réfutent la plupart des arguments contre ce second type de stratégie et démontre qu'elle entraîne des coûts sensiblement moindres que la première.

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