MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

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'Management Information Systems' ('MIS') is a general name for the academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures — collectively called information systems — to solve business problems. MIS are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization. Management Information Systems – Managing Information Technology in the
Internetworked Enterprise, , J, O’Brien, Irwin McGraw-Hill, 1999, Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making, e.g. Decision Support Systems, Expert systems, and Executive information systems.

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Background

Definition

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External links

Background

In their infancy, business computers were used for the practical business of computing the payroll and keeping track of accounts payable and receivable. As applications were developed that provided managers with information about sales, inventories, and other data that would help in managing the enterprise, the term "MIS" arose to describe these kinds of applications. Today, the term is used broadly in a number of contexts and includes (but is not limited to): decision support systems, resource and people management applications, project management, and database retrieval applications.

Definition

There are often confusion between terms ''MIS'' and ''information system''. Information systems include systems that are not intended for decision making. MIS is sometimes referred to, in a restrictive sense, as information technology management. That area of study should not be confused with computer science. IT service management is a practitioner-focused discipline. MIS has also some differences with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as ERP incorporates elements that are not necessarily focused on decision support.
Alan Lee defines MIS as ''"...research in the information systems field examines more than just the technological system, or just the social system, or even the two side by side; in addition, it investigates the phenomena that emerge when the two interact."'' ^[1].

Sources

1. Editor’s Comments, , AS, Lee, MIS Quarterly, 2001

See also

★ Business Intelligence

★ Business Performance Management

★ Business rules

★ Data Mining

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★ Predictive analytics

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★ Purchase order request

★ Enterprise Architecture

★ Information technology management

★ Knowledge Base

★ Online analytical processing

External links

★ Computer and Information Systems Managers (U.S. Department of Labor)

★ Index of Information Systems Journals

★ MIS Web sites (Bournemouth University)

★ MIS Links (University of York)

★ Executive Information Systems: Minimising the risk of development

★ The Dashboard Spy, a screenshot collection of over 1000 management information system dashboards including this Management Dashboard of the Day.