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MIS Intro
MIS Intro
Systems:
Or
Management is the organizational process that includes
strategic planning, setting; objectives, managing
resources, deploying the human and financial assets
needed to achieve objectives, and measuring results.
Information:
Data that has been refined for a particular purpose: a collection of
facts organised so that they have meaning and use to a particular
recipient in a particular context. It has additional value beyond
the value of the facts themselves.
© 2008 Prentice Hall, Inc. 1-4
Information characteristics
Useful information is essential if an organization is to
achieve its goals:
Effectiveness
Equity (fairness)
Integrated to
Manage complexity
Support and improve business operations
Support and improve the problem-solving and decision-making
activities of managers.
It transforms Data into Information
the telephone
Customers would call UPS with the
per call
delivery of a package
schedule a package for pickup
Shipping
tracking capabilities
Example: Amazon.com
Financial aid
Grades
Assignments
Digital divide