Zimbabwe Manufacturing Sector (1997 - 2013): The Missing Link

Zimbabwe is a developing country. It experienced a serious economic decline between 1997 and 2009. Before this period the manufacturing sector had shown some features of growth.The problem was that there was no production system model that guided the sector in measuring its investments. The DeLone and McLean information systems model was found suitable as a theoretical framework. Two models were found to suit the Zimbabwean production systems. One was on semi-automated systems that was very expensive to run and the other had disjointed automated systems. The missing link in the two models was lack of integration of all systems under a single company. No system linked the company to its stakeholders. This book is an eye-opener for industrialists, information systems scholars and the Zimbabwean government. One possible way of providing the link is for the government to license universities to produce software to integrate the industrial manufacturing systems.