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Management Information Systems Types

The document describes four categories of management information systems: databank, predictive, decision-making, and decision-taking. It provides details on databank and predictive systems. Databank systems observe, classify, and store potentially useful data for decision makers, like agricultural production statistics. Predictive systems go beyond collecting and comparing trends over time by drawing inferences and predictions to aid decision making, such as ratios between farms/land and extension staff.

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Management Information Systems Types

The document describes four categories of management information systems: databank, predictive, decision-making, and decision-taking. It provides details on databank and predictive systems. Databank systems observe, classify, and store potentially useful data for decision makers, like agricultural production statistics. Predictive systems go beyond collecting and comparing trends over time by drawing inferences and predictions to aid decision making, such as ratios between farms/land and extension staff.

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Classification of Management Information Systems

There are various types of management information systems. Mason and Swanson (1981) describe
four categories of management information systems: (1) databank information system, (2) predictive
information system, (3) decision-making information system, and (4) decision-taking information
system. The classification is based on the level of support that the information system provides in
the process of decision making. Sachdeva (1990) comprehensively presents these four types of
systems:

Databank Information System. The responsibility of this information system is to observe, classify,
and store any item of data which might be potentially useful to the decision maker. Examples of the
kind of data that might be recorded in such a database for a given village, region, or area are as
follows:

· Number of farms
· Number of units of arable land (hectares, fedans, acres)
· Average farm size
· Amounts of selected farm inputs applied annually
· Production per year on a unit of land for selected crops

A second example of data that might be recorded in a database (this time involving data internal to
the organization) is as follows:

· Number of extension staff by category and assigned to a particular village, region, or area

· Number of work hours devoted by staff to selected concerns for a particular village, region, or area

· Total extension salary costs and other expenses by village, region, or area

· Number of demonstrations conducted for selected farm technologies by village, region, or area

· Number of on-farm trials conducted for selected farm technologies by region or area

· Number of radio, TV, and print media releases regarding selected farm technologies by time
period and region or area

Figure 1. Role of information in the decision process.


Each of these databases can be summarized and converted to single tabular presentations of
information of interest to management. When information from two or more time periods is
compared, trends can be observed.

Predictive Information System. This system moves beyond pure data collection and the
determination of trends over time. Predictive information systems provide for the drawing of
inferences and predictions that are relevant to decision making. If data from the above examples
were to be used in this way, it is possible to obtain information useful for making predictions or for
drawing inferences. For example, tables containing the following information for a given village,
region, or area might be produced:

· The ratio between the number of farms and the various categories of extension staff members

· The ratio between the amount of farmland and the various categories of extension staff members

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