Showing papers on "Information quality published in 1977"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the quantity and quality of information that a key marketing agent in the purchase of a home, the real estate broker, is capable of providing consumers and found areas where brokers can be better informed and thereby better serve their public as a source of information.
Abstract: The concern for the consumer's right to be adequately informed when making a purchase has provided an impetus for legislation and research in a variety of consumer decision areas. Absent from these efforts has been any examination of the most important consumer decision—the purchase of a home. This study examined the quantity and quality of information that a key marketing agent in the purchase of a home, the real estate broker, is capable of providing consumers. A variety of informational areas are examined with most of them centered on the quality of life in a community neighborhood. The results suggest areas where brokers can be better informed and thereby better serve their public as a source of information.
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TL;DR: A study of the information needs of residents and business is conducted with an aim to discover how people seek information, when they need it and what kind of barriers they face in the search for useful information.
Abstract: Information is needed in making decisions as good information helps people in making better, more effective, aware decisions. A study of the information needs of residents and business is conducted with an aim to discover how people seek information, when they need it and what kind of barriers they face in the search for useful information.
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01 Dec 1977
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TL;DR: The Null Information Benefit condition emerges as a special theoretical case, but potentially a most important one in applications, and together with the Pareto optimum defines a large class of such problems that can be handled by the decision criteria and data analysis techniques tabulated here.
Abstract: Cost-benefit analysis has a considerable literature in which information systems have been patently ignored. This reflects the considerable difficulties of applying the theory to information systems, and the state-of-the art remains relatively as Koopmans described it some 19 years ago (1957). A bar to further development would appear to be the lack of an applicable value-of-information concept. This paper seeks to clarify the issues and provide a robust theoretical and data analysis framework that will cover most situations. The approach here is to separate explicitly the dimensions of cost from those of information benefit, and examine the implications. The Null Information Benefit condition emerges as a special theoretical case, but potentially a most important one in applications. This case together with the Pareto optimum defines a large class of such problems that can be handled by the decision criteria and data analysis techniques tabulated and discussed here. The selection of input data techniques defines the limits of later project justification and may be crucial to the political viability of the projects throughout its life. Finally, the general management vs information systems management relationships are discussed in terms of this situation.
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TL;DR: The base for storage and presentation of land information, covering all user needs, should be a national map/national co-ordinate system, so the inter-relationship of various types of information can be appreciated and their value correspondingly increased.
Abstract: Land information is a basic tool for nearly all development effort, yet much available information is not used because decision-makers are unaware of its existence. To improve its utilization, the base for storage and presentation of land information, covering all user needs, should be a national map/national co-ordinate system. By this means the inter-relationship of various types of information can be appreciated and their value correspondingly increased.
01 May 1977
TL;DR: An information system for managerial decision making which attempts to satisfy the data requirements of all 12 mental health comprehensive services is described, with the emphasis upon the use of the system by directors and managers for program planning, management, and decision making.
Abstract: This paper describes an information system for managerial decision making which attempts to satisfy the data requirements of all 12 mental health comprehensive services. The essential characteristics of an on-line computer information system are presented with the emphasis upon the use of the system by directors and managers for program planning, management, and decision making. A distinguishing characteristic of this management information system is its simplistic, yet elaborate nature. This apparently contradictory phrase illustrates the strength and flexibility of the system. It is simple in design, in data requirements, and in the number of forms used. On the cther hand, it is elaborate in terms of the quantity and quality of information produced for use by program directors and individual staff persons. Following an overview of the system, the majcr sources of input into the system are described along with a simplified introduction to the organization of the data base. output, in the form of reports generated. by_ the_system, is also discussed. Finally, the application and use of the information system on a day-to-day basis by center directors and program managers is examined. (Author) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** A MENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM AND ITS USE IN PLANNING, DECISION MAKING, AND MANAGEMENT David J. Senn and*David J. Marx