Briefly Examine the Development of Management Information Systems Over the Past

question 63

Essay

Briefly examine the development of management information systems over the past century and a half. Begin with the organizational hierarchy system created by railroad management in the 1850s, including both its advantages and its ultimate disadvantages, and proceed to the simple systems of the 1960s through the much more advanced systems of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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