Management focus: people and planning in computerized information system selection.

The CIS selection process is a multi-million dollar project which has much in common with a hospital construction project. Both require careful planning to assure the hospital of the best system to meet its present and future needs. One way to do this is to organize a hospital's human resources to facilitate participatory management in the CIS selection process. With our proposed cross-section of hospital staff, all of whom use the same...