UNIT VII
MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
I. THE
MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
FRAMEWORK
The Management Information System (MIS)
Computer-based Information System (CBIS)
II. Definition
of MIS
III. CLASSIC
MANAGEMENT
FUNCTIONS
Managers Historically Have Five
Main Functions
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
IV. THE
MANAGEMENT
PYRAMID
Top Level
Managers
Middle
Level
Managers
a high level manager must be
concerned with the long-range
view. The strategic level
management, for this manager,
usually called executive, the main
is on planning.
focus
commonly
known as the vice
president. He must be able to
take a somewhat different view
because his main
concern
is the tactical level
of management. These
tasks focus on
organizing
and staffing.
Low level
Managers
usually known as supervisor, he is
primarily concerned with the
operational level management.
For the supervisor, the focus is on
directing and controlling. He must
monitor the progress closely
checking employees attendance,
maintaining quality control,
handling complaints, etc.
V. MIS FOR
MANAGERS
Integrated MIS
Integrated
Management
Computer System
MIS
Manager
uses computer to solve
problems for an entire
organization, instead of
attacking them by
piecemeal.
runs the MIS department. This
position has been called Information
Resource
manager, Director of
Information Services, Chief
Information Officer and a variety
of other
titles.
VI. NEW
MANAGEMENT
MODEL
A. Flattened Pyramid
Networks
connect people to people and people to
data. Using e-mail or perhaps groupware,
information can be disseminated company wide as
fast as fingers can fly over a computer keyboard, so
much for passing along information through
traditional hierarchical channels. The
dispersion of information via the network has
caused that the traditional
management
pyramid to
become flatter in structure and more
physically distributed.
B. Teamwork
Many
companies are organizing their employees in teams.
But a team has no permanence; work and people are
organized around tasks. When a task is complete, the team
is dispersed. When a new task is being tackled, a new team
is assembled. Each team is composed of people
whose skills are needed for the task at hand.
Experts consider eight people an ideal team size.
If a team gets much bigger than that, team members
spend too much time consuming what is already
inside their heads instead of applying that
knowledge to their parts of the task.
VII.
APPLICATION
OF MIS
(MANAGEMEN
T
INFORMATION
SYSTEM)
A. Decision Support System
Decision
support or DSS is a computer system
that supports managers in non routine decisionmaking tasks.
Modeling
is the key ingredient of decision support
system.
Model
is a mathematical representation of a reallife system. A mathematical model can be
computerized.
Independent variables
Inputs
to a model, because they can change.
Dependent Variables
The
output, because they depend on the inputs.
Simulation
Using
computer model to reach a decision about a
real-life situation
These are the distinct differences
between MIS and DSS
B. Executive Support System
The overall vision or broad view of company goals
Strategic long- term planning and objectives
Organizational structure
Staffing and labor relations
Crisis management
Strategic control and monitoring of overall
operations
Several
commercial software packages are available
for specific modeling purposes. The purpose might
be marketing, sales or advertising. Other packages
that are more general provide rudimentary modeling
but let you customize the model for different
purposes budgeting planning, or risk analysis.
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