The role of systems designers in organizations

K Joshi

Omega, 1990, vol. 18, issue 5, 463-471

Abstract: Information Systems technology has been identified as one of the most potent tools and techniques available today to enhance productivity in organizations. However, for historical reasons, the role most information systems designers are playing is largely one of delivering information products to the members of an organizational hierarchy. This paper argues that such a role limits the scope for productivity improvements within the organization. It calls for an integrated work-information systems design role for systems designers. Such a role should enable systems designers to restructure the work environment with optimum utilization of IS technology for maximum productivity gains. In addition, some suggestions for achieving this goal and possible limitations are also discussed.

Keywords: productivity; improvement; organizational; redesign; computer; integrated; management; user; involvement; systems; designers; cross-functional; integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0305-0483(90)90003-R
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jomega:v:18:y:1990:i:5:p:463-471

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
https://shop.elsevie ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

Access Statistics for this article

Omega is currently edited by B. Lev

More articles in Omega from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().