Management of

Information System

Prof. Amar E. Tigga

Objective

 HOW BUSINESS FIRMS USE

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND
SYSTEMS TO ACHIEVE CORPORATE
GOALS.
 Understanding MIS
 Information systems – one of the major tools
available to business managers for
 - achieving operational excellence
 -developing new products & services
 -improving decision making
 -achieving competitive advantage

 Placements/Recruitments Interview
 Firms look for knowledge of Info Sys. & Tech.
 Regardless of major in finance, marketing, HR,
operation or info. system
 Changing Face of
Business Environment

 Traditionally, information systems,

considered as a set of management
reporting tools, but with the emergence
of computing technology IS role is
changing.
 Changing Face of
Business Environment
 Continuous IT innovations, transforming the
business world
 Destroying the business models
 Disrupting the entire industries
 Building new business processes
 Transform the day-to-day conduct of business
 Enabling to create new products & services

Ex. Online music stores, internet advertisements

 Changing Face of
Business Environment
 Likewise, management of business firms has
changed
 Computer based high speed network
 New mobile phones
 The growth of enterprise-wide information systems
with extraordinarily rich data means that manager
no longer operate in a fog of confusion, but instead
have online, nearly instant, access to the really
important info. They need for accurate and timely
decisions.
 Changing Face of
Business Environment

 1970s: IS primarily transaction based processing system

(TPS)

 1980s: Decision Support Systems

 1990s: brought about business transformation through

BPR concepts and become the boardroom agenda
 Integration of inter-organizational business process
and MIS over a web enabled architecture
 Changing Face of
Business Environment

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 Information Systems

 Information Systems are a set of

interrelated components that collect,
process, store and distribute information
to support decision making and control in
an organization.
 BUSINESS
PROBLEM

MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION INFORMATION SOLUTION
SYSTEM

TECHNOLOGY
 COURSE CONTENTS

The course contains three modules:

. Understanding Information Systems

. Planning of Information Systems

. Management of Information Systems

 MODULE I: UNDERSTANDING
INFORMATION SYSTEMS

1. Concept and overview of

Management Information System

2. Management and Information

Systems

3. Information Technology and

Database Management Systems
 MODULE II:
PLANNING, DESIGNING AND
IMPLEMENTING THE MIS

1. Planning for Information System

2. Approaches for System Development and Design

3. System Implementation, Evaluation and

Maintenance of MIS
 MODULE III:
MANAGING INFORMATION SYSTEMS

1. Managing Information Resources

2. Types of Information Systems and different

business functions

3. Information Security, Control and Audit of

Information system.
Also included are discussions on
specific modern trends like BPR,
ERP and E-Business. Essentially a
mix of lectures and case studies, an
important component of the course
is a group project which involves an
exercise on understanding of
information systems for a specific
industry.
 COURSE EVALUATION

 PROJECTS & PRESENTATIONS

 QUIZZES/CLASS TESTS

 END-TERM

 For projects and presentations you will

have to form yourselves into team of
7(maximum).
 CLASS RULES

1. BE ON TIME TO CLASS

2. BE QUITE WHEN SOMEONE ELSE IS

OFFICIALLY SPEAKING

3. DON’T DO OUTSIDE WORK IN CLASS

4. SWITCH OFF MOBILES

Suggested Readings
 Information Systems for Modern Management
 Robert Murdick, Ross & Claggett
 PHI

 Management Information Systems

 Managing the Digital Firm
 K.C.Laudon & Jane P. Laudon

 Pearson & Prentice Hall

 Management Information Systems

 Jaiswal & Mittal

 Oxford Higher Education

 Any good book on MIS available to you.