1985 Opinion Survey of MIS Managers: Key Issues

The results indicate that MIS managers are more oriented to corporate than to technical issues, and aligned MIS with corporate goals, software development, and end-user computing issues have increased in importance.

Abstract

This article identifies the issues which MIS management rates as most important and most difficult to solve over the next two years. The results were obtained from a 1985 opinion survey of MIS managers in over 100 St. Louis area companies. The most important issues fall into three categories: aligning MIS with corporate goals, software development, and end-user computing; the least important issues were narrowly focused or more technical. Comparison with prior research reveals that the alignment and end-user computing issues have increased in importance. The results indicate that MIS managers are more oriented to corporate than to technical issues.