1. Management Information Systems (MIS)
Lecturer: Srwa Mohammad

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. Relation between MIS, Business, Computer Science
Computer Scinece
Business