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Literature Review and Critical Analysis

The document provides an introduction to information systems and management information systems. It then reviews and analyzes two articles on management information systems. The introduction discusses how information is a crucial resource that must be managed efficiently to help decision makers. It defines management information systems as processing data to reduce uncertainty for decisions. The first article analyzed defines management information systems as large, sophisticated computer systems that generate useful information to support management decision making. It emphasizes generating insights over just processing data. The second article viewed defines management information systems as a set of computer systems and procedures to help managers make decisions by collecting, organizing, distributing, and storing organization-wide information.

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Literature Review and Critical Analysis

The document provides an introduction to information systems and management information systems. It then reviews and analyzes two articles on management information systems. The introduction discusses how information is a crucial resource that must be managed efficiently to help decision makers. It defines management information systems as processing data to reduce uncertainty for decisions. The first article analyzed defines management information systems as large, sophisticated computer systems that generate useful information to support management decision making. It emphasizes generating insights over just processing data. The second article viewed defines management information systems as a set of computer systems and procedures to help managers make decisions by collecting, organizing, distributing, and storing organization-wide information.

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INTRODUCTION:

Information is an indispensable resource for any organization and should be managed and
maintained with efficiency and diligence. Information is a data relevant to the particular situation,
processed and organises so as to help the decision makers take effective decisions by reducing the
uncertainty associated with the decision situation. In this paper I will do critique and comparison of
two items of literature in management information system and management in different levels of
activities and building a strong management information system to support decision making at
levels.

The three components, management, information, and systems together bring to focus clearly and
effectively:

1. Management: emphasizing the ultimate use of such information systems for managerial
decision making rather than merely stressing on technology.
2. Information: highlighting on processed data rather than raw data and in the context in
which it is used by managers and other end users.
3. Systems: emphasizing a fair degree of integration and holistic view.

Information system plays a crucial role in management of any contemporary enterprise such as
small, medium or large organization. A profit making or a social services setup, public or a private
sector undertaking a manufacturing or service organization, a local or global corporation and an
upcoming or established business house. The fast changing since of liberalization, competition and
globalization combined with a never before seen emphasis on quality, timelessness, innovation,
customer orientation and efficiency puts a premium on accurate, super fast and timely
dissemination of information across the globe. The unprecedented developments in computing and
communication technologies have indeed made such demands translatable into realizable goals.
Thus, a large portion of the world population has its stake in information system. Invariably such
systems are computer based.

1. Literature review and critical analysis


Article 1:

Avdesh Gupta Anurag Malik in his book of management information does not take production
oriented view and emphasises that the means of producing the information. Management
information system refers primarily to such organizational information systems which are generally
large, sophisticated, structured, and dynamically evolving and of immense commercial value. The
term MIS is familiar to most managers working in the private, the public, and the government
sectors since much of the management involves decision making and decisions have to be supported
by accurate data, information generated by computers is useful to management, it is quite an art to
generate information that will provide an insight into decision making process. Thus, MIS is a
philosophy which is far deeper and complex than the mundane processing of large amounts of
corporate data by computers.

An MIS, for the purpose of this text, would mean a set of computer based systems and procedures
implemented to help managers in their crucial job of decision making. The actual process will involve
the collection, organization, distribution and storage of organization wide information for
managerial and control. This definition emphasizes on organization wide information, decision
support, managerial emphasis and computer based [Link] can only address formal, often
quantifiable and non-trivial decision making situations of organization. While the extent of success of
decision makers is often enhanced by availability of MIS, it need not necessarily be so, particularly in
intuitive and innovative decision making situations.

Having regard of this book MIS can be defined as the “combination of human and computer based
resources that results in collection, storage, retrieval, communication and use of data for the
purpose of efficient management of operations and for business planning. The system utilizes
computer hardware and software, manual procedures, modelling for analysis, planning, control and
decision making, and database.”

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