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- Timeliness of information depends on the situation and industry.
- Some organizations require up-to-the-second information, while others only need daily or weekly updates.
- Real-time information means immediate, up-to-date information.
- Real-time systems provide real-time information in response to requests.
- Growing demand for real-time information is due to the need for faster and more effective decision-making, smaller inventories, operating more efficiently, and tracking performance more carefully.
- Information needs to be timely in the sense that it meets employees' needs, but no more.
- Continual change is one of the biggest pitfalls associated with real-time information.
- Business decision makers must evaluate the timeliness of information for every decision.
- Organizations do not want to make bad decisions faster by using real-time information.
- Different managers may have different views on a business problem due to time differences in gathering information.
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