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A consensus ranking for information system requirements

Yong Shi (Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, College of Business Administration, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA)
Pamela Specht (Director of the MBA programme and Professor of Management, College of Business Administration, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA)
Justin Stolen (Professor of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, College of Business Administration, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA)

Information Management & Computer Security

ISSN: 0968-5227

Article publication date: 1 March 1996

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Abstract

In allocating scarce resources to a new information system (IS), a non‐trivial task becomes the determination of a best priority ranking of the IS’s intangible information requirements. Given a set of individual users’ rankings of the information requirements, illustrates, through a real‐world case study, a streamlined consensus priority ranking (SCPR) method based on a concept of minimizing the disagreement (distance) between individual rankings. Compared to a traditional weighted ranking method, the SCPR method is easy to understand, systematic and requires no weighting methodology. Thus, the SCPR method can help the system development team make efficient decisions when allocating resources for a new information system.

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Shi, Y., Specht, P. and Stolen, J. (1996), "A consensus ranking for information system requirements", Information Management & Computer Security, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 10-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/09685229610114169

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1996, MCB UP Limited

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