TY - JFULL AU - Nazar Younis and Raied Salman PY - 2007/1/ TI - Degeneracy of MIS under the Conditions of Instability: A Mathematical Formulation T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 817 EP - 821 VL - 1 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1514 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 12, 2007 N2 - It has been always observed that the effectiveness of MIS as a support tool for management decisions degenerate after time of implementation, despite the substantial investments being made. This is true for organizations at the initial stages of MIS implementations, manual or computerized. A survey of a sample of middle to top managers in business and government institutions was made. A large ratio indicates that the MIS has lost its impact on the day-to-day operations, and even the response lag time expands sometimes indefinitely. The data indicates an infant mortality phenomenon of the bathtub model. Reasons may be monotonous nature of MIS delivery, irrelevance, irreverence, timeliness, and lack of adequate detail. All those reasons collaborate to create a degree of degeneracy. We investigate and model as a bathtub model the phenomenon of MIS degeneracy that inflicts the MIS systems and renders it ineffective. A degeneracy index is developed to identify the status of the MIS system and possible remedies to prevent the onset of total collapse of the system to the point of being useless. ER -