Quality of information and its impact on strategic decision A field study in a sample of Iraqi banks

Abstract

The study was enganged of a subject which is one of the important subjects in busine and private organizations frame work, as the information to day is a basic of organizational successful work which reflects at decisions of senior management and other departments, as the (information quality) described as (interpreting variable) which based on number of criteria which are (accuracy, utility, effectiveness, forecasting and efficiency) to evaluate information quality. Where as the strategic decisions represented a variable study (dependent), the study aims at detecting the information quality, identifying its reliability and suitability to the decision maker and its impact on strategic decisions taken by banks, which applied on a sample of higher and intermediate administrative in a sample of Iraqi banks represent (40) persons. The study found important conclusions which are the strategic decisions depend on the accuracy of information, its efficiency and its forecasting, in addition to numbers of recommendations such as that the strategic decisions depend on suitable criteria towards banking strategy in getting sin formation suitable with the challenges facing banking industry and its need to predictive dimension, accuracy and utility.