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Executive Information Systems

Once again this builds on top of the MIS and TPS and also draw information from other sources external to the organization. EIS are 'used by strategic managers to make policy decisions' and are use for 'scenario modelling'. An example of this is supermarket chain deciding where it should put new stores.



Tom Carlson 2006-04-18