Analyzes business problems and then designs and maintains computer applications to solve the organization's problems.
The role of the management information system (MIS) manager is to focus on the organization's information and technology systems. The MIS manager typically analyzes business problems and then designs and maintains computer applications to solve the organization's problems. MIS is short for management information system or management information services. Management information system, or MIS, broadly refers to a computer-based system that provides managers with the tools to organize, evaluate and efficiently manage departments within an organization. I. The MIS is defined as a system which provides information support for decision-making in the organization. II. The MIS is defined as an integrated system of man and machine for providing the information to support the operations, the management and the decision-making function in the organization. III. The overall purpose of MIS is to provide profitability and related information to help managers and staff understand business performance and plan its future direction. IMPORTANCE OF MIS: 1. MIS is always management oriented and keeps in view every level of management and gets the desired information. 2. It explains the role of information, as an essential tool for managers in planning and decision making. It describes MIS as a well co‐ordinated information system, a database that is to provide management with needed information to plan and make decisions.
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