Management Information Systems (MIS) Lecturer: Srwa Mohammad

Chapter 1:MIS Management: the organization and coordination of activities of business in order to achieve defined objectives. Basic task of management include marketing and innovation Directors and managers have power and responsibility to make decisions

Size of managements can rang from 1 person in small organization to hundreds or thousands of managers in multinational companies. Most important factors in management are quality and experience of managers

Data & Information Data: information in unprocessed form, that represent ideas. ex\ alphabet, numbers, symbols Information: is accurate data, organized for a purpose, led to increase in understanding and decrease in uncertainty

Data vs Information Data is Unprocessed facts, information is data after processing. Data can’t help in decision-making, because doesn’t have meaning, information have meaningful form

Information Quality Elements of Information quality: Intrinsic: believability , reputation Contextual: completeness, amount of information Representational: format, compatibility Accessibility: access security of information Reliability: it should be dependable Timely: reach user in time, make important decisions in time

Relevant: current and valid information, reduce uncertainties Accurate: free of errors and mistakes Sufficient: decision s can be made on its basis Unambiguous: should expressed in clear terms Complete: should meet all needs Unbiased: free from any bias, should have integrity

Explicit: should not need any further explanation Comparable: should be of uniform collection Reproducible: should be documented methods on same data set

Business Business: An organization or economic system where goods and services are exchanged for one another or for money.

Business activity Business activity: the aggregate economic activities (buying, selling, renting, investing) of an organization or of the commercial and manufacturing sectors of an economy

Using Information in Business activities 5 main uses of information by businesses and organizations Planning: information is so important in dicision making Recording: business needs recording information about each transition Controlling: business need to set up an information filter, so that only filtered data is presented to top managments

Measuring: business measure it’s performance by collecting sales data and cost of manufacturing Decision-making: theory of organizational behavior

system System: a set of detailed methods, procedures and routines created to solve a problem Information system: combination of people and computer also combination of hardware, software and trained personnel organized to data processing

Management Information Systems (MIS) MIS: an integrated system of man and machine for providing the information to support the operations

Functions of MIS 1- data processing: include the collection, storage and output of data 2- Functions of prediction: predicts the future situation by applying modern mathematics 3- Functions of plan: it arranges the plans of each functional department by providing planning reports 4- Functions of control: monitors and inspect the operation 5- Functions of assistance: it find best answer to problems by applying mathematical methods

Objectives of MIS 1-facilitate the decisions making process 2-information request provider 3-help in highlighting the critical factors 4- support decision making in both stractured and unstructured environments

Components of MIS 1- hardware 2- software 3- control 4- database and application programs 5- people 6- telecommunications and networks

Advantages of MIS Companies are able to highlight their strength and weakness Giving an over all picture of company Help the company to align their business processes, according to needs of the costumers

Relation between MIS, Business, Computer Science Computer Scinece Business