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• W622068197 abstract "Recent literature suggests that microcomputers will be quickly adopted by organizations, often without forethought as to the apprvpriate policies that should be followed in such adoption. An exploratory study of five medium-sized city governments reveals that, at least in some kinds of organizations, carefully thought-through policies for adoption of personal computers are being followed. Compatibility is the main problem often brought up by professionals as a reason for the need for a procurement policy. This problem is explored and the reasons for the development of these policies are discussed. Introduction explores this claim. We look at three aspects of the organization: technical problems related to the introduction of PC's, organizational policies, and organizaIn the past three years declining prices and increasing capabilities of personal computerst have stimulated tional practices. their adoption in a number of markets. Although first usedbyhobbyists,and occasionally bysmallbusinesses, The Problem they are now being used in increasing numbers by larger organizations with traditional data processing capabilities (IDC Report 1983). By the end of 1983, over six There is no doubt in the minds of DP professionals that million personal computers had been sold. the next major step, after the initial period of learning and adaptation ofPC's in large organizations, will be the Assuming that PC use will continue to grow, we wonder connection of those PCs to a network with existing mainwhat form this growth will take. Most predictions of frames and other machines. This is a logical step to be growth in PC use over the next few years focus on the taken from all aspects number of units sold or the dollar volumes of sales, usually broken down by kind of market The forecasts PC users will wanttouse the valuable information stored vary from the PC becoming the dominant factor in the in central sites. They will also realize the limitation of computer market, to wholesale replacement by the PC theirmicro machines for some types of applications and of most other kinds of computing machinery. will want to log in to the mainframes occasionally. Since PC's will replace current terminals, their users will also Most of those forecasts however, are based on what could want to use them as a node in the network for mail syshappen and not on what is actually happening today. tems and other communications. In order to respond to This study views the current state of events, compares it all those new demands, organizations will need careful to the expectations and analyzes the reasons for the planning and appropriate changes in the existing sysdiMerence. We wantto findthe extentto whichmanagers tems and procedures. The changes needed seem to be plan for PC's, what they do and why. quite complicated to achieve, and it is not clear that all partiesconcernedwillbecooperativeinanefforttowork A main concern ofDPprofessionals iscompatibility. they them out successfully. claim that unless organizations plan ahead, compatibility betweendifferenttypesofPC'sandbetweenPC'sand The main issue will be compatibiliu. The best known mainframes is going to be a major problem. The study types of compatibility problems are hardware oriented + For this purpose we defme a personal computer as follows: an independent computer, operated maily by one person, includes operating system and file management, has some 1/0 functions, a disk ordiskette ortape, and is priced under$15,000. The distinc tien between PC's and larger computers in terms of CPU or memory is getting less clear even, day." @default.
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• W622068197 title "An Exploratory Study of Organizational Procurement Policies for Personal Computers" @default.
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