Management Information System (MIS)

What is ‘Management Information System (MIS)’:

What is Management?

1- Planning: Organization should setting the goal to be achieving by considering the environment factor such as politic, technology and others. Then, the organization can forecast their profit or demand from the customer’s either on their product or service. The manager also can determine the method of data collection. That’s all under the planning in management.

2- Organizing: It involves evolving the structure of the people working in the organization and their roles. In the organization, it should consist of staffing, coordinating, delegating and understanding the policies and/or procedures.

3- Leading: Leading is the task of implementing the process of management. In the organization, the manager has authority, to directing, to supervising, motivating, negotiation and persuading.

4- Controlling: The content under the controlling are resources (capital, labour, materials, machines and information), measuring the data, evaluating the result, reporting, guide the manager to take specific corrective action and lastly feedback from the customer or top management.

What is Information?

Information is data that has been processed into a form that is meaningful to the user and is of real or perceived value in current or prospective actions or decisions.

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What is System?

A physical system is a set of components (PC software, PC hard disk) that operate together to achieve a common objective or multiple objective.

Other than above definition, MIS also can define as: 

• A system which provide information support for decision making in the organization.

• An integrated system of man and machine for providing the information to support the operations, the management and the decision making function in the organization.

• A system based on the database of the organization evolved for the purpose of providing information to the people in the organization.

• The MIS is defined as a Computer - based Information System.

 

Role of the MIS

1- The MIS is the systems that ensure a correct data is collected, processed and sent to the destination that needed. The function of MIS is to fulfil the information needs of an individual, a group of individuals and the management level. 

2- The MIS is the systems that provide the information that needed by various of systems likes Analysis Systems, Modelling Systems and Decision Support Systems. Then, it helps in Strategic Planning, Management Control, Operational Control and Transaction Processing.

3- The MIS helps the employees in their job such as helps the middle management in the planning decision either short or long them planning, target setting and controlling the business functions.

4- The MIS also consist of the information generation, communication, identify the problem and as the process of decision making. MIS normally used in the departments such as administration and operations.

Impact of the MIS

The main impact of MIS is in its management include the management of marketing, finance and production that become more efficient. From the systems in organization, the manager can update the progress of the project, its achievements and shortfalls in various aspects in organization. Then, MIS helps the manager to forecast and planning their project as well as the process of the decision making. By having the information reporting system, employees in organization can access the data or result anywhere and make valuable time.

            The MIS is the system and it given the impact to the organization as well as to the employees especially in understanding of the business itself. It’s the common to the employees to understanding of terms and terminology in the organization because of the information in the system have their own dictionary and create own term or symbols or logo.

            The MIS is the computer based information systems. So, it gives the impact to the employees to have basic knowledge about the Information Technology (IT) and also how to use the computer. From that, it makes employees more knowledgeable in using the computer and system that affect their work. More employees need to done more task as requested by management so time management and work efficient important for them.

 

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References: 

• "Management Information System new approaches to Organization and Technology", Kenneth C. Laudon , Jane P. Laudon, 5 edition.

• www.uotiq.org/dep-cs

 

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