The Systems Men and the Management Information System Concept They Promoted

The systems men saw computers as a tool for centralizing all information related to structuring and running the enterprise. The MIS vision was not about using computers to help people in the enterprise, it was about creating a unified information fabric that would allow senior execs to run the enterprise from the boardroom. By the last half of the 1960s, the MIS movement was becoming widespread in theory and nearly absent in practice.