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Mis

Information Systems
for Public Sector Management

Working Paper Series

| |Paper No. 5 |
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| |Public Sector Management Information Systems |
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| |RICHARD HEEKS |
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| |September 1998 |

|Published by: |Institute for Development Policy and Management |
| |University of Manchester, Precinct Centre, Manchester, M13 9GH, UK |
| |Tel: +44-161-275-2800/2804 Fax: +44-161-273-8829 |
| |Email: idpm@man.ac.uk Web: http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm |

Table of Contents

Abstract 1

A. Introduction 2
A1. Management Monitoring and Control Systems 2
A2. Complicating the Simple Picture 4

B. Features of Management Information Systems 9
B1. Link to Data-Gathering Systems 9
B2. Reports, Reports, Reports 9
B3. The Role of Reports 10
B4. Management Information System Model 12
B5. Benefits of...