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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