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DETERMINING REPORTING SCHEDULES FOR ONGOING MANAGERIAL PROCESSES
Author(s) -
HANNUM WILLIAM H.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1970.tb00768.x
Subject(s) - computer science , schedule , statement (logic) , point (geometry) , process (computing) , control (management) , operations research , information flow , computation , industrial engineering , management science , mathematics , algorithm , economics , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , artificial intelligence , political science , law , engineering , operating system
Setting up a system for maintaining control over an ongoing administrative process involves the problem of determining how frequently control information should be obtained. In this article a model for determining optimum reporting frequencies is described and explored from a managerial point of view emphasizing the data inputs and interpretations necessary to make the model operationally meaningful. Several forms of reporting schedules are discussed and procedures are given for determining optimum schedules under various operating conditions. An appendix contains a detailed statement of the mathematics and computations of a recursive procedure for determining an optimum schedule for a particular reporting situation and flow charts of the computer programs used for calculating optimum schedules for general use.