What+is+MIS

Now we are in 2010, and we in age of technology and age of speed , and we have battle with them. If we want to walking with roads now we must to study and apply the MIS in our life. The MIS " Management Information System ", three words contain significant thnigs about Management your Jobs and your life and yourself. So if you want to make successful works you must to study MIS and apply it.

__ What Is MIS ? __

MIS is about applying information technology to business problems. The emphasis is on finding solutions. To the MIS professional, information technology is a tool, not an end in itself.(1)

__ Who works in MIS? __

MIS professionals are business-oriented, technically proficient individuals who are found in every type of industry from health-care and banking to media and gaming, as well as in the high tech industry such as Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, and SAP. The majority of MIS professionals and Fox MIS alums work in user organizations such as GlaxoSmithKline, Lockheed Martin, Campbell Soup, JP Morgan Chase, and consulting firms such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers.(2)

__ Applications of MIS : (3) __

With computers being as ubiquitous as they are today, there's hardly any large business that does not rely extensively on their IT systems. However, there are several specific fields in which MIS has become invaluable.


 * Strategy Support While computers cannot create business strategies by themselves they can assist management in understanding the effects of their strategies, and help enable effective decision-making. MIS systems can be used to transform data into information useful for decision making. Computers can provide financial statements and performance reports to assist in the planning, monitoring and implementation of strategy. MIS systems provide a valuable function in that they can collate into coherent reports unmanageable volumes of data that would otherwise be broadly useless to decision makers.

By studying these reports decision-makers can identify patterns and trends that would have remained unseen if the raw data were consulted manually.

MIS systems can also use these raw data to run simulations – hypothetical scenarios that answer a range of ‘what if’ questions regarding alterations in strategy. For instance,

MIS systems can provide predictions about the effect on sales that an alteration in price would have on a product. These Decision Support Systems (DSS) enable more informed decision making within an enterprise than would be possible without MIS systems.


 * Data Processing Not only do MIS systems allow for the collation of vast amounts of business data, but they also provide a valuable time saving benefit to the workforce. Where in the past business information had to be manually processed for filing and analysis it can now be entered quickly and easily onto a computer by a data processor, allowing for faster decision making and quicker reflexes for the enterprise as a whole.

Finally I think now in 2010 and in the future you can’t make successful work without MIS or use one application at least from MIS world.

note : you can find many sources about MIS in internet, Just use your keyboard.

sources

-(1) : Oakland Univertsity : [] -(2) : Fox school of Business : [] -(3) : BPC : []

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