Abstract
"Total Management Information System" is becoming a popular phrase in data processing and management areas. The data processing people see a vast new area to expand their new system concepts. Management reaction varies from wild enthusiasm to utter antipathy, often colored by a fear of managerial unemployment. Megabuck price tags make skeptics of the optimistic, and the problems of building a useful system tax the imagination of the best system planners. Can we then ignore the total management information system and wait another decade until we further analyze and perfect the concepts? No. For some time, business publications have reported business aspirations and activities implementing new data processing applications that are called total systems.