form. It's going to be a hybrid version or a regular leaving set. And a lot of leaving set students at the moment are looking beyond June and trying to see, you know, what options might be available to them come September. And to that end, that a Kenny AT are hosting a virtual information evening tomorrow evening from five to eight, not just four leaving set students because they'll be outlining all the opportunities that are available to mature students and early school leavers and others. Well, Fiona Kelly, who's Marketing Manager at the Kenny AT joins us now and also joins us streaming. Fiona, good afternoon. So opportunities for a lot of different people as they outlined there and the mature students and early school leavers as well as those that are about to set the leaving set. Yeah, so there's a little bit of something for everybody parents as well, John, because we know it's important that we can, I suppose, hit a lot of bases when it comes to our information sessions. We were lucky in November that we got to host an onsite event and we had 1600 leaving sets on campus in November. So they really just before I suppose Omnicron hit, we kind of were in there and had that event happened. So it allowed students really to come in and really get a sense of the campus, see your facilities, check out all of our labs, all of our amazing facilities across all of our discipline areas. But this event then goes a little bit further. It's webinars, they're 30 minutes long each and they have certain experts from L my it delivering talks. So if you're a parent or a teacher or a prospective student, say thinking about a CEO application, there's a talk being delivered by my colleague Tracy Tracy Sheridan on the CEO application process. Maybe you're thinking about full time courses. Well, what does L y it have to offer? There is a specific talk on that that's delivered by Victoria Wilson, excuse, engagement officer. There's a talk then for parents about supporting the transition to third level. And because it can be a very difficult time for a secondary school student to make that move for that leap into third level and Michael Markey, our head of Faculty of Business is delivering that talk. And then Dr. Nigel McKelvey is doing a talk on online and part time courses, as you rightly mentioned, it's not just for leaving certs, maybe people have been impacted because of COVID-19, maybe down to short working hours. There's a little something for everybody now at letter Kenny it and that's where the online and part time programs talk comes in. We also then have a talk by Rashi McCormack, our disability officer on student supports on the higher education access route, which is called here. And then the disability access route to education, which is there. And then I'll be delivering a talk about the Susie grants about scholarships and bursary. So there's a little bit of something for everybody in those six sessions. There is a lot covered over a relatively short period of time between five and eight. Now, and how does it work? Are those all those sessions linked or can you can you go in and pick and choose? Yeah, you can do that table. Yeah, so there's a time table on our website. If you go to lyit.ie forward slash open day, you can see the full schedule. You might be a parent just interested in the transition to third level talk, or maybe you're just somebody who's thinking about online or part time courses. You don't have to attend all of them. You can go on and register on the links or you can attend all of them. But we're also streaming live on our Facebook and YouTube platforms. I suppose like what you have today, you have me online with you here and then live on the radio. So we have to have a hybrid model now at Lyit. Like so many other organizations, we're offering it in a multifaceted way. So say, for instance, if you're an international student, looking out for information and a lot of European students apply to Lyit through the CAO, you can click and connect either on our Facebook or a YouTube channel. Actually, Lyit's YouTube channel is the most viewed in the higher education sector. So we're very proud of that. Great. And in a way, the webinar will suit some people. Others might prefer to be able to go along in person. That's just not possible at the moment. But tomorrow night, you can sit in the comfort of your own home and hear what's being said and you can get a virtual tour of the college. Yeah, exactly. And you can ask questions as well. If you come in via the Zoom link or on social media, you can ask us your questions and our team will then be answering those questions live as well. So look, this is an ideal in terms of not being able to have people on campus. But from the beginning of February, we're hopeful that more people will be able to come back and visit.  The campus tour takes around an hour and a half. And we'll take you right through the facilities. And again, big times ahead for Lyit, becoming at Donegal University and becoming Atlantic Technological University. So it's a very exciting year ahead for us. Absolutely. That's linking up with Sligo and Galway. That's right. The three institutions, a total of eight campuses will be merged together and there'll be 20,000 students and just under 3000 staff. So it's very exciting. We offer 54 CAO programs at Lyit. And as you mentioned at the beginning, programs such as Access, for instance, for somebody who maybe was an early school leaver who left the education system maybe at 14, 15, 16 years of age. Access Studies is like a pre-degree program, a preparation course. And we're doing a standalone session for that program actually, John, on the 31st of January, as well for anybody who's out there. And we've some amazing people who've come through our Access course and gone on to really great things, having left school maybe early and then returned to education. That's kind of like dipping your toes in the water. Exactly. It's a taster. And it's a part-time course, which is quite flexible. Say if you're a parent at home, we have some amazing people who were part of a campaign that we had there in November. One of our students, Avin Sims, currently a third-year computing student, was a busy stay-at-home mum and wanted to return to education and didn't think she had the confidence to do that and absolutely excelling. Now, one of the top students in applied computing a third year, having done Access. And again, Access gives you that confidence to return to education. So, for those people out there who are thinking, well, God, I could never return to education. That wouldn't be for me. Sure, I wouldn't be able. There are so many people that have come through LIIT, haven't started an Access course, and have excelled. And I just, big believer, returned to education. And I watched my own mother come back to education and study as a nurse. So, I really see the benefits of it. And I can't advocate it enough. And it cost you nothing just to have a look and consider it. And for those who are between jobs, there's plenty of Springboard Plus places as well. Yeah, so Springboard Plus courses are great because not only are they free to people who maybe are on unemployment benefit or receiving some levels of support, people who are in employment only have to pay 10% of the fees in the program that they're choosing. So, you could be returning and maybe considering a master's course. Maybe you're thinking about maybe a conversion course into computing, maybe you previously studied a business degree, or maybe you studied nothing at all and you want to maybe pick something like, for instance, leadership and management or a course in social media marketing. These courses then are funded. And as I said, only 10% of the funding has to be paid for if you're in full-time work. So, again, this is a government initiative, Springboard Plus and the July Stimulus Programs. It's to try and get people into areas that are kind of underrepresented within the market. So, IT, for instance, like social media, leadership and management. So, if you go to LIT's website and you click on Springboard, you'll see the list of programs that are available right now in terms of Springboard Plus and July Stimulus. And Dr. United McKelvey is delivering actually that talk tomorrow as well. And then next week we actually have our first ever post-grad and part-time event. It's happening on Wednesday, the 26th of January. We have around two online events a week happening now for the next 10 weeks with just various activities and events happening. So, there's a little something, as I said, for everybody. And don't discount yourself. If you are, if you've got that notion to return to education, then do consider letter Kenny IT. One and two, Donnie Gull students are now choosing to study at home and choosing LYT. We're very proud of that. So, that's down to offering what our community is looking for. Okay. Well, a lot's happening at the Kenny IT as always. And that includes tomorrow's virtual information evening. It starts at five, continues through until eight. And do you need to register or can you just link in? Yeah. So, if you follow our Facebook page and YouTube page, you just click and connect. You can check at the timetable because maybe not every talk is relevant to you. But if you want to go to the website, lyit.iefort slash open day, you'll see the schedule. And then you can also pre-register on our Zoom links as well. So, live streaming on Facebook and our YouTube pages. But if you want to just specifically link into the talks, there's links there to pre-register on lyit.iefort slash open day. Brilliant. Fiona Kelly, thank you very much. Thanks so much, Don. All the best, everyone. When it comes to searching for a holiday, Atlantic Travel and letter Kenny deal with all the major tour operators from Dublin and Belfast to find you the best deals of


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M. M. Hant working in computer science and engineering department as an assistant professor in Vulture Institute of Technology, Solapur. Today we are going to discuss the topic information systems in global business. The learning outcomes are at the end of this session student will be able to describe concept and components of management information system and describe role of information system in business. Now we are going to see the definition of management information system. What is MIS? A management system is the framework of policies, processes and procedures used by an organization to ensure that it can fulfill all the tasks required to achieve its objectives. 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. Concepts of MIS. The MIS is an idea which is associated with man, machine, marketing and methods for collecting information from the internal and external source and processing this information for the purpose of facilitating the process of decision making of the business. MIS is not new only the computerization is new. Before computers MIS techniques existed to supply managers with the information that would permit them to plan and control business operations. The computer has added on more dimensions to such as speed, accuracy and increased volume of data and that permit the consideration of more alternatives in decision making process. Now we are going to see the components of MIS. There are three components of MIS management information and system. Now we are going to see one by one management. Management has been defined the process or activities that describe what managers do in the operation of their organization plan, organize, initiate and control operations. They plan by setting strategies and goals and selecting the best course of action to achieve the goals information. Data must be distinguished from information and the distinction is clear and important for present purpose. Data are facts and figures that are not currently being used in the decision making process and usually are taken from the historical records that are recorded and filled without immediate intent to retrieve the decision making information and consist of data that have been retrieved processed and otherwise used for information or inference purpose. Argument or as a basis for forecasting of or decision making regarding any business audit system. The system can be described as a set of elements joined together for a common objective. A subsystem is a part of a larger system with which one is concerned. All systems for our purpose the organization is the system and the parts that mean division, department, functions, unit, etc. are the subsystem. The actual MIS process relates to collection, organization, distribution, storage of ID information and managerial control and analysis of data. In collection we are collecting the data from the system. Organizing means what we are pre-processing or processing the data in a particular form that is called organization. Distribution we are distributing the data among the different parts or units of that organization. Storage of wide information means we are storing the large amount of data with long period of time by using MIS. User control and analysis of data means we can manage that data and make analysis of that data for a specific purpose. Hence now after getting this information MIS focuses on organization wide information means every person know each and every information of different departments of that organization. Decision making process any senior executive or manager level people will be use that data or information for making the decisions regarding with that organization. Managerial control and analysis here we can make the analysis of different data for different purposes. Computer based system we can use the automation system for existing manual system using the MIS. So management information system is a set of interrelated procedures using information system infrastructure in a business enterprise to generate and dissimulate the desired information. So systems are designed to support decision making by people associated with the enterprise in the process of attainment of its objectives. The MIS gets data and other resources of IT infrastructure as input from the environment and the process them to satisfy the information needs of different entities associated with the business enterprise. Hence there are subsystems of control over the use of IT resources and feedback subsystem offer useful clues for increasing the benefits of information on system to business. The MIS are subsystems of business system and by themselves serves the function of feedback and control in the business system. Below management information system here are some important rules of MIS are the MIS satisfies the diverse needs through variety of systems such as query system, analysis system, modeling system and decision support system. The MIS helps in strategic planning, management control, operational control and transaction processing. The MIS helps in clerical personal in the transaction processing and answer the question on the data pertaining to the transaction, the status of a particular record and reference on a variety of documents. The MIS helps the junior management personnel by providing the operational data for planning and scheduling and control and help them further in decision making at the operate level to correct an output of control situation and out of control situation. The MIS helps the middle management in short term planning, target setting and controlling the business functions. It is supported by the use of management tools of planning and control. The MIS helps the top level management in global setting, in goal setting, strategic planning and evolving the business plans and their implementation. The MIS plays the role of information, generation, communication, problem identification and helps in the process of decision making. The MIS therefore plays a vital role in the management, administration and operation of an organization. Now pause the video and answer the questions. One of the following component is of MIS, option A, information, B event, C analysis and D inference. The answer is information. Now the role of management in business. Here the graph can be shown. The information system plays a vital role in business today. So in this graph on the x-axis they will be taking the software, hardware and the communication equipments used in the business and on the y-axis the investments can be shown. So here total investment and IT investment can be shown that IT investment raised from 34 percent from 1982 to 50 percent in year 2004. So there will be drastic increase in the use of IT equipment in this IT investment of the business. You can see the result of massive spending around you every day by observing how people conduct business. Change in technology and new innovative business models have transformed social life and business practices. Over 247 million Americans have mobile phones. Near about 60 percent of the population, 167 million of people access the internet using smart phones and tablets, 46 percent entire population now use tablet computers whose sales have sold 172 million Americans use online social networks, 150 millions use Facebook. While 48 millions people use Twitter, smart phones, social networking, texting, emailing and webinars have all become essential tools for business and because that's where your customer supplies and colleagues can be found. So people are using Facebook while 48 millions people are using Twitter, smart phones, social networking. So now e-commerce and internet advertising continue to expand. Google's online revenue surpassed $17 billion in 2013 and internet advertising continues to grow more than 15 percent a year reaching more than $43 per billion, $43 billion in revenue in year 2013. These are the references. Thank you.