Current Changes in Executive Work and How to Handle Them by Redesigning Executive Information Systems
Series
Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation
ISBN
978-3-642-35760-2
Type
book section
Date Issued
2013
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Mancini, Daniele
Vaassen, Eddy H.J.
Dameri, Renata P.
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
Executives in Europe have significantly expanded their role in operations-in parallel to their strategic leadership. At the same time, they need to make decisions faster than in the past. Redesigned executive information systems (EIS) should support top managers in their new roles. This article examines how corporate management is evolving, and what issues a redesigned EIS should address. Embracing a new normal environment, we arrive at four prescriptive statements for an EIS architecture that is more business-driven than the state of the art. This architecture differs by applying a business-to-IT approach, designed in four layers: strategy, organization, alignment, and IT support. With such a structure, it is possible to drill-through to information needed to executives´ more operational decisions. Furthermore the proposed architecture balances key performance indicators from five information clusters for accelerating executives´ decision making: financial accounting, management accounting, compliance management, program management, and cash flow and liquidity management.Keywords: Corporate management, information systems analysis and design, functional requirements, next-generation executive information systems
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Accounting Information Systems for Decision Making
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher place
Berlin, Heidelberg
Number
3
Start page
151
End page
173
Pages
23
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
218101