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ABSTRACT

The search for productivity improvement has reached new levels in the information systems world. Organizations are stockpiling tools such as application generators, program analyzers, test data generators, and workbenches in the frenzied quest for productivity. Many organizations that have taken this tool acquisition route are beginning to realize that tools alone are not enough. What is needed is an approach that motivates the use of productivity technology. In this vein, incentive compensation strategies can be applied to the information systems world in a way that focuses on productivity improvement and couples it with quality considerations. From a management viewpoint, this forces more precise definition of productivity metrics and quality quantification.