Monday, June 23, 2008

Blog post # 3

WIth MIS trends, justify and contradict the statements. Cite examples whenever needed.

1. MIS users are more knowledgeable.
Its important to be knowledgeable in MIS because
the use of this system it improves our skills and knowledge to achieve the organizational objectives.
2. More computing power is available to the user
with the aid of MIS, the users can obtain and use much computing power, that they may use to make their work easier and faster. As a top level management we must know how our work especially employees learn many things about the objective of the company
3. Resistance to the implementation of emerging MIS is subsiding.-
MIS implementation are long term and its resistance is high enough to perform its functions in the firm. it's quite expensive but its very worth it.
4. Connectivity
With the help of MIS company must implement the guidelines of using MIS as a improvement and objective to supply the needs of the company so that our work is worth it.
5. MIS is becoming one of the primary means of increasing productivity.
MIS is one of the primary means of increasing productivity because our marketing analysis and ideas effort will increasing productivity by giving extra effort to achieve the goal of the company and much easier to inform us our improvement.
6. Companies are using MIS as a competitive strategy.-
Most of the companies use MIS as the best competitive strategy because the company can conduct research in their competitors products, systems,practices and strategies. through these, they can have an advantage to their competitors.
7. MIS is becoming integral to the decision-making process.-
In decision making- process, MIS plays an important role. It influences the decisions of managers and businessman, whether tough or ease. With its help, the better and good decisions are implemented and made.
The role of a management information system is to convert data from internal and external sources into information that can be used to aid in making effective decisions for planning, directing and controlling.

8. End user is becoming the focus of MIS activity.
- through all the benefits that the MIS can give, the end user are the most benefited because they are the center of MIS activities.The MIS can be used to gather information from both formal and informal flows of information.

· A formal flow of information is one in which a procedure is adopted, e.g. the downloading of sales figures from several branches first thing on a Monday morning. External data can be collected using specialized data collection agencies such as Dun and Bradstreet who produce economic data for academic and commercial organizations. Formal flows can also come from people working on the same document at several locations, or by use of e-mail, or by use of company intra nets.

· Informal information flows come from chance meetings, reading magazines or newspapers, or watching the news on TV.



The Management and Information Systems Group aims to extend the theory and practice of information systems through the analysis of the social and technical factors that relate to them. We seek to engage with the area at both a strategic and an operational level to create Information Systems that meet the needs of both people and the organizations that use them.
MIS is the study of the interaction between groups of people, collections of machines and sets of procedures that allows the right information to be communicated to the right people at the right time.

The use of computers by people to acquire knowledge or skills. The term encompasses e-learning, distance learning and mobile learning and includes the identification of semantic detail that can lead to intelligent learning support for differing perceptual and cognitive preferences and a variety of learning styles.



CHRISTIAN B. Jakosalem

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