The planning, analysis, design and evaluation of information systems for organisations. The Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization est. The focus is on the interrelationships, not on the components themselves. Information technology includes technological changes such as microcomputers, distributed processing, and new methods of communications. Organisations includes the social group, the individual, decision making and the design of organisational structures and processes.
Society includes the economic systems, society's institutions and values of professional groups.
WG8.3 - Decision Support Systems est. The development of approaches for applying information systems technology to increase the effectiveness of decision-makers in situations where the computer system can support and enhance human judgements in the performance of tasks that have elements which cannot be specified in advance. WG8.4 - Office Information Systems est. The study and development of information systems for office work. Such systems are concerned with the support of, and communication in connection with, human activities in an organisation.