what is management information system?
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As an area of study it is commonly referred to as information technology management. The study of information systems is usually a commerce and business administration discipline, and frequently involves software engineering, but also distinguishes itself by concentrating on the integration of computer systems with the aims of the organization. The area of study should not be confused with computer science which is more theoretical in nature and deals mainly with software creation, or computer engineering, which focuses more on the design of computer hardware.\n\nIn business, information systems support business processes and operations, decision-making, and competitive strategies.
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Just go into detail on what applications are used by which department.\n\nEg.  computerised accounts package - accounts \n\npurchase ordering - purchasing/stores\n\nSales - sales staff\n\nMOS - IT\n\ngeneral office applications - admin\n\nOr you could go into the types of systems that employees and management use at different levels:\n\nTransaction Process Systems - Supervisors\nManagement Information Systems - department heads\nExecutive Information systems - Senior management.  \n\nTry these pages for more information: \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Systems\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_information_system\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_Support_System\n\nHope this helps!  x
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i take it you mean the "information management capacity check" (IMCC)? \n\nthe IMCC is a self-assessment tool designed to analyze the state of information management practices in a company, institution, or industry against a standard. it also enables senior managers to bring together all the elements of information management practices, compare against best practices, and provide information to enable management to develop plans for improvements to their own information management practices.
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A good place to browse the software available would be http://dmoz.org/Business/Management/Management_Science/Management_Information_Systems/ A great source that explains what Management Information Systems are is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_information_systems This includes links to different software as well. If you are unfamiliar with what MIS software is you should review the second link prior to reviewing the first since it goes into detail as to what MIS software is.
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System for transforming raw data into information that can be used in decision making.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_information_systems\n\nDid a search on Google and couldn't find any useful on CIS just courses\n\n"The CIS program stresses management and business legacy systems (mainframes, COBOL, RPG, and so on) plus application development for Windows environments (Visual C++ and Visual Basic, spreadsheets, etc.), primarily for large management information systems and database systems (including accounting, inventory, payroll, personnel, and sales)."
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Management information systems (MIS) are information systems, typically computer-based, that are used within an organization. WordNet describes an information system as "a system consisting of the network of all communication channels used within an organization". A management information system may also be defined as "a system that collects and processes data (information) and provides it to managers at all levels who use it for decision making, planning, program implementation, and control." An information system is comprised of all the components that collect, manipulate, and disseminate data or information. It usually includes hardware, software, people, communications systems such as telephone lines, and the data itself. The activities involved include inputting data, processing of data into information, storage of data and information, and the production of outputs such as management reports.\n\nAs an area of study it is commonly referred to as information technology management. The study of information systems is usually a commerce and business administration discipline, and frequently involves software engineering, but also distinguishes itself by concentrating on the integration of computer systems with the aims of the organization. The area of study should not be confused with computer science which is more theoretical in nature and deals mainly with software creation, or computer engineering, which focuses more on the design of computer hardware.\n\nIn business, information systems support business processes and operations, decision-making, and competitive strategies.
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It means computerized database systems that give managers information for making decisions.  For example where i work we all input our time and leave requests and what we worked on in the computer.  It is an MIS.  Management can track what we spent time on and figure their costs and efficiency and stuff.  There are others but that is our biggest one.
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Hi \n\nWell , its the kind of software that lets you manage either another part of the software , remote system or local machine. In otherwords is the part were you make changes to the running sofwares or system that connect to the software
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Configuration Management is a discipline centered around the configuration of an item to document changes and ensure items are are controlled and tracked. \nConfiguration management applies technical and administrative direction and surveillance over the lifecycle of an item to: identify and document characteristics, control and document configuration changes, record and report the status of proposed changes, and audit configuration items to verify conformance to specifications, drawings, interface control documents, and other contractual requirements. \nConfiguration management software can simplify the process of configuration control. \nFor further reading and guidance go to:\nhttp://all-free-info.com/configuration-management/
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Do you mean Management Information Systems? What do you want to know about these jobs?
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That's a good question.  I am an applied information technology student and have friends who are studying Management information systems.  I think that Information systems refers to the solutions already put in place to make work easier and improve efficiency.  For instance an MIS major isn't expected to re-invent the wheel when they join an IT department.  On the other hand information technology teaches you about computing from a practical and vantage point of view.  You see the problems and suggest solutions.  Solutions that you will implement and someone with a background in information systems will take over and work on daily.  For instance, a bus company like greyhound writes tickets by hand.  the information technology guy says no we should use a database, he designs and implements it and then an information system worker comes in to maintain and do the daily activities the database needs to function.\n\nI hope this answers your question.
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Management can be loosely defined as the methodologies and myriad of systems used to "manage" or "control" a business, organisation or a project/task.\n\nThere are many differing styles and philosophies of management, some of which can be contradictory. For example, many businesses/companies use a traditional "hierarchical" style of management that focuses on managing the business "from the top down" without giving much power over decision-making and direction to employees lower in the company. There are other businesses/companies that take a more open or "democratic" approach to management that tends to value input from lower levels of the company and often incorporates such input when making important decisions about company direction or strategy. Creative businesses such as games developers or design companies often adopt the latter style of management.\n\nManagement covers a very wide range of issues/factors that are relevant in achieving "good" management and include areas such as Ethics & Leadership, Human Resource Management, Finance & Accounting, Marketing & Public and/or Internal Relations, Operations Management, etc.\n\nAs you can see, Accounting is just one part of Management and deals with the recording and reporting of financial data in relation to the business, organisation or project. Accounting is important because it is needed for tax purposes and for other legal obligations but also because it is through good accounting that the managers of an entity can see and understand where their business is currently at and where it might be headed. Accounting is one of the more "objective" methods of evaluating or analysing a business and its weak and strong points and depending on how good or bad the accounting is, can be an important factor (but certainly not the only factor) in the success or failure of a company or project.
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Management - meaning the bosses who run the company\nInformation System - meaning the data (like sales, personnel, accounts receivable, etc.) that is generated by the company.\n\nThe bottom line:  a computer system that helps the boss make decisions on how to run the company.\n\nMike Honeycutt
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"Managers"\nIn IT, the term configuration management or configuration control has the following meanings:\n\nThe management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures and test documentation of an automated information system, throughout the development and operational life of a system. Source Code Management or revision control is part of this. \nThe control of changes--including the recording thereof--that are made to the hardware, software, firmware, and documentation throughout the system lifecycle. \nThe control and adaptation of the evolution of complex systems. It is the discipline of keeping evolving software products under control, and thus contributes to satisfying quality and delay constraints. Software configuration management (or SCM) can be divided into two areas. The first (and older) area of SCM concerns the storage of the entities produced during the software development project, sometimes referred to as component repository management. The second area concerns the activities performed for the production and/or change of these entities; the term engineering support is often used to refer this second area. \nAfter establishing a configuration, such as that of a telecommunications or computer system, the evaluating and approving changes to the configuration and to the interrelationships among system components. \nIn distributed-queue dual-bus (DQDB) networks, the function that ensures the resources of all nodes of a DQDB network are configured into a correct dual-bus topology. The functions that are managed include the head of bus, external timing source, and default slot generator functions. \n\n"Developers"\nA software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. This person may contribute to the overview of the project on the application level rather than component level or individual programming tasks. Software developers are often still guided by lead programmers but also encompasses the class of freelance software developers.\n\nOther names which are often used in the same close context are software analyst and software engineer.\n\nAs time passes, differences between system design, software development and programming are more apparent. Already in the current market place there can be found a segregation between programmers and developers, being that one who actually implements is not the same as the one who designs the class structure or hierarchy. Even more so that developers become systems architects, those who design the multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large software system.\n\n"end-users"\nThe end user is a central concept in software engineering, referring to an abstraction of the group of persons who will ultimately use a piece of software (i.e. the expected user or target-user).
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1. Has senior management support and sponsor.\n2. Has gone through business risk analysis.\n3. Has good project management controls.\n4. Has good change management controls.\n5. Has good user interaction/feedback controls.\n6. Has good security management controls.\n7. Has good management reporting system.\n8. Has good return on investment.\n9. Was delivered in time.\n10. Delivered all the functional requirements and users liked it.\n\nMost of all, recognize that it's ususally a judgement call and best of systems typically get assessed again and again by different people in the organization and at different times causing fluctuations in determining what the characteristics of a good management information system is.
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Information Technology