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The management of end user computing
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Volume 26 ,  Issue 10  (October 1983) table of contents
Pages: 776 - 784  
Year of Publication: 1983
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
John F. Rockart  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Lauren S. Flannery  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

End users can be classified into six distinct types. Each of them needs differentiated education, support, and control from the Information Systems function. To support a large number of their applications a new computing environment, “the third environment” must be developed by Information Systems (I/S) management. Close attention must also be paid by I/S management to the need to involve “functional support personnel” (end users in each functional area who spend most of their time programming and aiding other end users) in the I/S end user management process.


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