Professor A. Van Cauwenbergh of Antwerp University. in a paper presented at the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management. presented four alterations to traditional Management Theory. In drumhead. the alterations are:

( 1 ) The enterprise for the reclamation and accommodation of the activities of a house should come from the different degrees in the direction hierarchy. “Strategy is non a privilege of top management” . ( 2 ) Firms. particularly large houses. are incoherent systems ( ends of the different constituent systems are non merely subdivisions of an overall end ; there are single. conflicting ends every bit good ) . Some of these differences are manifestations of organisational enterprise and verve. Using information systems and cardinal planning and regulation devising to stamp down all differences is destructive to organisations.

( 3 ) The most critical “fluid” of an endeavor is the sum of its entrepreneurial values. The most cardinal and motive and control come through these shared values relative to work. quality. efficiency. etc. Management frequently neglects these values and assumes that the aggregation and airing of information will supply sufficient motive and control. ( 4 ) Enterprises are unfastened systems ; their construction and operating procedures are determined by their environment. This means organisations must be designed to continually set to the environment.

Questions: 1. If these alterations are right. how is be aftering to be organized? How should the information system back up the planning organisation? 2. Can the information system assistance in accomplishing shared values? 3. How might a comprehensive system be used to smother inaugural