management information system

Management Information Systems (MIS By List of Contents List of Contents

Information Age 1 .1 Information System 1 .2 Elements of Information System 1 .3 Benefits of Information System 1 .4 Management Information System (MIS 2 . IT Planning 3 . Telecommunication Development 4 . Globalization 5 . Internet and E-Commerce Development

Bibliography 1 . Information Age

There are six characteristics of the information age (James Senn , 1998 ,

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Information sharing and exchange have significant role in the most of society 's activities Information technology is inseparable

part in a business that influence the accomplishment of jobs Transformation of work /business process ? increase productivity Information technology becomes a tool to reengineer conventional business process Effectiveness of information technology uses influences the success or failure of a business Application of information technology is to many products and services 1 .1 Information System Terms of Information System Previously , information system means a manual system of recording and managing information but today , the term refers to a computerized software intensive system

Function of Information System Retrieved data from internal and external sources and manipulate it ? to obtain information that is useful to accomplish a business task or to solve a problem

Types of information systems operating level systems knowledge-level systems management level systems strategic level systems 1 .2 Elements of Information System 1 .3 Benefits of Information System The key benefits of information system relates to the enhancement of quality as following Increasing the efficiency of products and its production process Promoting benchmarking programs Integrate customers demands to enhance products and services Reducing cycle time Increasing the quality of products and services by conducting suitable design Increasing the precision of products by performing suitable calculation (Heterick , 1988 1 .4 Management Information System (MIS Role of Management Information System (MIS As a tool to increase competitive advantage of a company ' over the long period A linkage that enable flow of information between entities in the company ? to make suitable decision

Benefits of Management Information System (MIS Providing easier ways to records , stores and process data and corporate information Enable managements to consider MIS as an integral part of decision making activities Becoming performance monitoring system that alert managements if any discrepancies occurs within a business processes (`Management Information System , 2005 2 . IT Planning 2 .1 Hardware Development Hardware is the visible things in an information system . For example desktop /laptop computer , printer , hard drive , modem and router Hardware Development Miniaturization and handheld Broadband-capable

2 .2 Software Development SOA Virtualization , web-based applications (Gardner , 2005 Increasing adoption of Semantic XHTML , Javascript (Manageability , 2005 3 . Telecommunication Development 4 . Globalization Background E-business has significant influence on globalization

Reasons to adopt e-Business in globalization It favors cost efficiency ? increasing profitability and productivity It provides standardized form of communication regardless the language barriers E-Business allows mechanical processes to be handled by machine E-Business is capable of standardizing platforms to support the immediacy of current transaction (Corbitt , 2003 .5 . Internet and E-Commerce Development Internet and Business Companies launch its official web site as an...