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Management Information
Systems (MIS)
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Study questions
Q1 Why is Introduction to MIS the most
important class in the business school?
Q2 What is MIS?
Q3 How can you use the five-component
model?
Q4 What is information? What makes
some information better than other
information?
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Q2 What is MIS?
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What Is MIS?
Key elements
1. Management and use.
2. Information systems.
3. Strategies.
Goal of MIS
➢ Managing IS to achieve business
strategies.
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What Is MIS
Management
The key is to develop, maintain, and
adapt.
To create an information system that
meets your needs, take an active role
in the system’s development. Why?
Business professionals understand business
needs and requirements.
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What Is MIS
Development and Use of Information
Systems: Business professionals need
to:
Take active role to ensure systems meet
their needs.
Understand how IS is constructed.
Consider users’ needs during
development.
Learn how to use the IS.
Ancillary (security, backups).
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What Is MIS
Achieving Strategies: Information
systems exist to help people in a
business achieve the business'
strategies.
“What is the purpose of our Facebook page?”
“What is it going to do for us?”
“What is our policy for employees’
contributions?”
“What should we do about critical customer
reviews?”
“Are the costs of maintaining the page
sufficiently offset by the benefits?”
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Q4 What is information?
What makes some
information better than other
information?
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What Is Information?
Definitions vary
1. Knowledge derived from data, where data
represents recorded facts or figures.
2. Data presented in a meaningful context.
3. Processed data, or data processed by
summing, ordering, averaging, grouping,
comparing, or other similar operations.
4. A difference that makes a difference.
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Where Is Information?
• Graph is not, in itself, complete
information.
• Graph is the data which you and others
perceive. You can use it for conceiving
information.
• The ability to conceive information from
data is determined by cognitive skills.
• People can perceive different
information from same data.
One user’s information is another 25
user’s data