INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSUMPTIONS

The following questions are designed to assess your assumptions about information systems.

1. Information Technology (IT) increases the productivity of clerical workers
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

2. IT increases the productivity of managers
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

3. IT increases employment
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

4. IT improves communication
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

5. IT decentralizes power
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

6. Those who fail to adopt IT cannot compete
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

7. IT improves the quality of working life
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

8. Successful development of Information Technology is determined more by the technical staff than the user staff
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

9.Successful development of Information Technology is determined more by the selected technology than the project management.
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

10. Users generally understand their own business information needs
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

11. Users can clearly articulate their business information needs to systems analysts
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

12. Users are typically qualified to participate on a system development project.
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

13. Good systems analysts can readily determine system requirements by asking users, looking at current systems, or by experimenting with an evolving system.
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

14. Even good systems analysts cannot determine system requirements because the environment is too uncertain and too complex to comprehend.
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

15. Even good IS analysts cannot determine system requirements because every user will have a valid, but different, perspective.
1 Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Slightly agree
4 No opinion
5 Slightly Disagree
6 Disagree
7 Strongly disagree

Scoring