Management Information Systems in Poland and in the West

Reveals that management information systems (MIS) as a concept is still embryonic in Poland and struggling to adjust to the sea change in Polish politics evidenced since the demise of Communism. Information is key and its gathering must reject the requirements of the now defunct central planning and adapt instead to those of entrepreneurialism. Hence expert management of change is vital with the emphasis on quality rather than quantity. Managers themselves must also change and, as the free market becomes essential to the development of MIS, teachers from the West will be required to upgrade decision making, strategic planning, etc. Concludes that, with the ideal of the mixed economy still inchoate in Poland, it behoves the West to channel that country′s computer naivety and its concomitant wastefulness into new developments.