Using Management Objectives to Specify Management Information Systems - A Contribution to MIS Success

Data warehouse projects, today, are in an ambivalent situation. On the one hand, data warehouses are critical for a company's success and various methodological and technological tools are sophisticatedly developed to imple­ ment them. On the other hand, a significant amount of data warehouse projects fails due to non-technical reasons such as insufficient management support or in­ corporative employees. But management support and user participation can be increased dramatically with specification methods that are understandable to these user groups. This paper aims at overcoming possible non-technical failure reasons by introducing a user-adequate specification approach within the field of management information systems.

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