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Understanding Management Information Systems in Business

Explore the difference between data and information, trends in IT, and the importance of MIS in solving business problems and introducing new technologies. Learn about accounting, inventory, software bots, and more.

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Understanding Management Information Systems in Business

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  1. Chapter 17:Managing Information Systems & Technologies Mgmt 220 March 3,2005 Dr. Mary Lynn Manns

  2. Data versus Information • Data • Information • Quality • Timeliness • Completeness • Relevance

  3. Management Information Systems • Information Systems (I.S.) • accounting, inventory, registration, etc. • Information Technology (I.T.) • software and hardware • The field of Management Information Systems (M.I.S.)

  4. Trends in I.T. • The tumbling cost of information • Hardware developments • Wireless communications • Networks • client/server • LAN/WAN

  5. Trends in I.T.Software Developments • Artificial intelligence software • Expert systems • Robotics • Pattern recognition • Software bots / intelligent agents • Business Intelligence Software • Geographic Information Systems • etc. etc. etc.

  6. So why does a business person need to care about this? • To understand who in the I.T. Department can address your need • To understand the terminology I.T. people use • To manage I.T. people • To help build information systems

  7. M.I.S. at UNCA(Mgmt 386) • What I.T. is used to solve various business problems? • How does the business person help to introduce new technologies into the organization?

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