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driving it through the organization. Training and education and pilot projects in process improvement, widely publicized in the school system, will further enhance the importance of the TQI program. Measures of TQI performance must become part of the evaluation of all operations personnel (as well as education personnel). A bi-product of this effort will be a great reduction in fear and suspicion among employees and an enhanced respect for each other. As we see the vision, we anticipate some increased costs to implement some of the recommendations but in general, we expect a net total cost decrease to the system due to more efficient and effective operations. In particular, we believe that implementation of the recommendations of this report will lead to significantly enhanced efficiency and productivity from the operations perspective. We turn now to more specific functional parts of the vision. 3.1 Information Systems The pupil information system can be either SIMS based and modified to provide the capabilities and processing speed necessary for proper operation or a new information system that provides all the information, reporting and processing requirements for optimal operation. The state mandates that a system with certain capabilities and reports in a certain format be in place in all schools. As nearly as we can determine, it does not require the current SIMS system. In the interests of time, we recommend a new system be adopted. This issue is dealt with in detail under implementation below. Pupil statistics and the other information currently handled by SIMS will either be available as partitioned files at Lincoln Center that can be accessed by the individual schools or will be resident on the local data bases of the school that will be uploaded as needed to the central host to facilitate reporting to both the state and to central administration. The Information systems will be headed by a Chief Information 5