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Management Information Systems

Notes 14.4 Keywords

Customization: Customization features allow a software packages to be modified to meet an
organization’s unique requirements without destroying the integrity of the packaged software.

End- User Development: It is the development of information system by end user with little or
no formal assistance from technical specialists.
Prototype: The prototype is working version of an information system or part of the system,
but it is meant to be only a preliminary model.

14.5 Review Questions

1. Examine the various stages of system lifecycle.
2. Discuss the various limitations of the Lifecycle Approach.

3. What is prototyping? Enlighten the various steps used in the prototyping process.
4. How to build information systems using application software packages?
5. Explain the concept of end-user development with its advantages and disadvantages.

6. Illustrate the process of managing end-user development.
7. If an organization has unique requirements that the package does not address, many
packages include capabilities for customization. Comment.

8. Explain the concept of channel conflicts.
9. Describe the requirements based on business process.
10. What are the opportunities obtained by changing or redesigning the organization?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. information systems 2. project definition
3. systems study 4. specification

5. translates 6. Systems analysts
7. installation 8. prototype
9. operational 10. customization
11. End User development 12. on-line

13. Window 14. Channel conflict
15. privacy

14.6 Further Readings

Books Bhatnagar, S.C. and K.V. Ramani, Computers and Information Management, Prentice
Hall of India Private Ltd, New Delhi, 1991.

Davis, Gordon B. and Margrethe H. Olsen, Management Information Systems,
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Singapore, 1985.

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