Perennial management data systems issues in US manufacturing firms
Based on a survey of manufacturing firms, with a questionnaire based on issues identified repeatedly in earlier studies, this paper details the most important information systems issues for a sample of US manufacturing firms. The top four issues were found to be data resources, competitive advantage, end-user computing, and aligning the is organization. The common thread among ail top issues is a focus external to the IS organization, either enterprise-wide issues or issues that transcend the boundary of the firm. A factor analysis of the data found an underlying three-factor structure: enterprise-wide issues. IS functional issues, and applications issues.
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