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Recommended Citation: Sivitanides, M P and B J Nienhaus.  The Role of Information Systems Departments in Today's Organizations.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2000, v 17 (Philadelphia): §980.
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The Role of Information Systems Departments in Today's Organizations

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 		Marcos P. Sivitanides    [a1] [a2]
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin    [u1] [u2]
Austin, Texas, USA    [c1] [c2]

Brian J. Nienhaus    [a1] [a2]
Love School of Business
Elon College    [u1] [u2]
North Carolina, USA    [c1] [c2]

While more and more people are becoming technologically savvy, in many organizations there still exists a "technological divide" between the mainstream staff and the Information Technology (IT) staff. The fence that seems to create this divide has not been lifted yet in many organizations. It is time for this divide to disappear so that all employees of an organization have a clear understanding of the entire organization's mission and processes to accomplish that mission. The issue is primarily one of open and clear communications among all organizational players. This paper provides a top-down mission-oriented guideline in breaking down the communication barriers among various constituents and players within an organization. When all members of an organization communicate clearly with one another and understand each other's contribution to the primary mission of the organization, then they can all work together more efficiently and more effectively towards accomplishing that mission.

Keywords: human factors in Information Systems, Information Systems and the organization

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