Enchanced Growth Development through Better Information System Design: The System Analyst Perspective

Copyright c 2013 Z. Manoussaridis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Nowadays, many industrial countries are being transformed from industrial economies to knowledge and information-based service economies, whereas manufacturing has been moving to low-wage countries i.e. China, India etc. In knowledge societies, information and knowledge are key parts in creating wealth. To achieve growth de-1376 Z. Manoussaridis, C. Mamaloukas and M. Sagheb-Tehrani velopment, there is a need to continuously distributing or creating new knowledge and information. Appropriate information systems are needed to optimize the ow of information and knowledge in the organizations to help planners and decision makers. Better information systems can increase the e¤ectiveness and the quality of cru-cial activities like spatial analysis, strategic objectives setting, long-range plannin