MIS

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Introduction to CBIS

• Lets discuss
• What is Management Information System?
• What is the difference with Information System
  Management?
• An organized assembly of resources and procedures
  required to collect, process, and distribute data
  for use in decision making

Information and Management
Information Form
Information Source
Strategic planning level
Summary
External
Management Control Level
Operational Control Level
Internal
Detail
Finance Function
Information Services Function
Manufacturing Function
Marketing Function
Human Resources Function
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5 Main Resources
Personnel Material Machines (including facilities
and energy) Money Information (and data)
Physical
Information is The most valuable resource
Conceptual

• Data and Information
• Information processor
• Key element in the conceptual system
• Computer
• Noncomputer
• Combination
• Data is the raw material transformed into
  information

• Physical and Conceptual System
• Physical system
• The business firm
• Composed of physical resources
• Conceptual system
• Represents a physical system
• Uses conceptual resources
• Information
• Data

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The CBIS Model
Computer-based Information System (CBIS)
Accounting Information System
Problem
Management Information System
Decisions
Information
Decision Support Systems
Problem Solution
The Virtual Office

• Justify in the same manner as any other large
  investment
• Economic
• Cost reduction
• Reduced inventory investment
• Increased productivity (CAD/CAM)
• Noneconomic Perceived value

Knowledge-based Systems
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Information Specialist
Database Administrator
Systems Analyst
Operator
User
Computer
Programmer
Network Specialist

• Users
• Managers
• Nonmanagers
• Persons organizations in the firms environment

Information specialists have full-time
responsibility for developing and maintaining
computer-based systems
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Using IT for Competitive Advantage
The Firm and Its environment
Government
The Firm
Customers
Suppliers
Competitors

• The Firm Is Connected to Its Environment by
  Resource Flows
• Physical and conceptual
• Some flows are major
• Some should not occur at all
• All resources that enter the firm from the
  environment eventually return to the environment

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• Competitive Advantage
• Computer field perspective
• Use of information to gain leverage in
  marketplace
• Relies on more than physical resources
• Addressed with strategic objectives

Influence on Information Resources
Information resources and IS strategy
Business strategy
Strategic planning for information resources
(SPIR) develops firm and IS strategic plans
concurrently SPIR content 1. What is to be
achieved 2. What will be required
Influence on Business Strategy

• The Information Resource Manager -- the CIO
• Chief Information Officer (CIO) is not simply a
  title, but role
• Manager of information services
• Contributes managerial skills
• Solves information resources problems
• Solves problems in other areas of firms
  operations

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