In the strategy layer the purpose of the EIS is set (Fig. 5). Investigating this layer,
we took the ‘‘organizational imperative,’’ which says that an organization should
be designed in light of its vision and strategic program, bearing in mind situational
factors influencing it [30]. In terms of EIS, it should be oriented toward executives’
corporate management task.4 We derived executives’ main tasks from the literature
review and asked survey participants three questions about how they allocate
their time among these activities (Table 3).