MIS Implementing Approaches Choose Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

Choose of suitable approaches for implementing management information system is a complex problem involves many intangibles that need to be trades off. Based on analytic hierarchy process, this paper structures the problem of choose as a hierarchy. There are four alternatives and four criteria for the decision. The alternatives are end-user development, joint development, outsourcing development and purchasing software packages. The criteria are performance and quality of the system, and costs and benefits of the implementation. Each criterion is broken down into subcriteria to be more comprehensible and measurable. The elements are compared one by one to construct a set of pairwise comparison, and then obtain the local and global priority of each element. The final priorities of alternatives can derive a better decision. The case study demonstrated that an optimal implementing approach of MIS could be effectively selected based on AHP.