The authors have participated in the information management of a Government Agency during a period of more than five years. In this period, an explicit review of information management took place, and a new DSS-oriented approach to computerization was developed. In this article, they describe why an information management policy aimed at an equilibrium of centralized coordination and decentralized management failed to be implemented. Because of this failure, two competing strategies emerged: the centralistic bureaucratic computerization strategy and the decentralistic DSS-oriented computerization strategy. Based on their experiences, the authors demonstrate that several objections against DSS-oriented computerization are invalid. Furthermore, they show that DSS-oriented computerization leads to a significantly lower computerization cost level than bureaucratic computerization.