Management information system

Presentation by –

Niveet Srivastava(24)
Navneet kumar (22)
Management Information Systems
(MIS)

 A Management Information System is an

integrated user machine system for
providing information to support the
operations , management , analysis and
decision making functions in an
organization
Management information system
 Management
Management has been viewed as a function, a
process, a profession and as an elite or a class of
people
 Information
Information can be defined as the data which is
organized and presented at a time and place so that
the decision- maker may take necessary action
 System
A system is a group of elements or components
joined together to fulfill certain functions
 Employees

Corporate
Databases Corporate
databases
of intranet
of
external
internal
data
data Decision
support
systems

Transaction Databases Management Executive

Business processing of information Application support
transactions systems valid systems databases systems
transactions

Drill-down reports Expert

Exception reports systems
Demand reports
Operational Key-indicator reports
databases
Input and Scheduled
error list reports
 Role Of The MIS

 It ensures that an appropriate data is collected from the

various sources, processed and send further to all the
needy destination
 It helps the lower management by providing the
operational data for planning, scheduling and control
 It helps the middle management in short term planning,
target setting and controlling the business function
 It helps the top management in goal setting, strategic
planning and evolving the business plans and their
implementation
 Internet
Internet An Organization’s
MIS

Financial
MIS
Business
transactions

Drill down reports

Accounting
MIS Exception reports
Transaction Databases
processing of
Demand reports
systems valid
transactions
Key-indicator reports
Marketing
MIS Scheduled reports

Business
transactions
Databases Human
of Resources Etc.
external MIS
data
Extranet
Extranet
Characteristics of a MIS

 Provides reports with fixed and standard

formats
o Hard-copy and soft-copy reports
 Uses internal data stored in the computer
system
 End users can develop custom reports
 Requires formal requests from users
 Types Of MIS

 Accounting management information systems

All accounting reports are shared by all levels of
accounting managers
 Financial management information systems
The financial management information system
provides financial information to all financial
managers within an organization including the
chief financial officer
 Types Of MIS

 Manufacturing management information systems

Inventories are provided just in time so that great
amounts of money are not spent for warehousing
huge inventories
 Marketing management information systems
A marketing management information system supports
managerial activity in the area of product
development, distribution, pricing decisions,
promotional effectiveness, and sales forecasting
 Types Of MIS

 Human resources management information

systems
Human resources management information systems
are concerned with activities related to workers,
managers, and other individuals employed by the
organization
 Components Of MIS

 Hardware
Input and output devices constitute the hardware components
of MIS
 Software
The programs and applications that convert data into machine-
readable language are known as software
 Procedures
Procedures are sets of rules or guidelines, which an
organization establishes for the use of a computer-based
information system
Cont…
 Components Of MIS

 Personnel
The computer experts, managers, users, analysts,
programmers, database managers, and many other
computer professionals who utilize the computer-based
information systems are the personnel in a
management information system
 Many people would also include data, usually
positioned between software and procedures in the
above list
 Advantages Of MIS

 Facilitates Planning
 Minimizes Information Overload
 Encourages Decentralization
 Brings Co Ordination
 Makes Control Easier
 Disadvantages Of MIS

 Budgeting of MIS extremely difficult

 Quality of outputs governed by quality of inputs
 Lack of flexibility to update itself
 Effectiveness decreases due to frequent
changes in top management
 Takes into account only qualitative factors and
ignores non-qualitative factors like morale of
worker, attitude of worker etc...
 Conceptual View Of MIS

Management Information System

Business Goals And Mission

Support Structure To MIS

Application On Pure And Social Science

Application Of Principles And Practice Of Management

Use Of Database And Knowledge Base

Information Technology And Enterprise Software

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