Excerpt from User Managers' Systems Needs: It Appears That Tomorrow Is Here Today, We Need to Change the Rules of the Game and Play Catch-Up Ball Inquiry and analysis systems, however, are more managerially oriented in their intention, design, and use than transaction processors. It is the difference between starting with the data and sending summary reports to the managers most likely to find them relevant and starting with a managers' needs and working down to the data and analysis necessary to support those needs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.