Reflection About

Management Information System (MIS)? Correct description of the subject course?

Before having reflections with this question let’s just define some terms that I believe it could really help us give us some good thoughts or ideas about this “headache maker question”.(lol) The terms that we will be going to define are coming from the internet and the links that are in the bottom portion are serve as the reference links. Here are the terms to define:

Ø MIS (Management Information System)

Ø IS (Information System)

Ø SSIS (Social Study of Information System)

What is MIS?

A management information system (MIS) is a subset of the overall internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants to solving business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy. Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization. Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making, e.g. Decision Support Systems, Expert systems, and Executive information systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_information_system

What is IS?

In a general sense, the term Information System (IS) refers to a system of people, data records and activities that process the data and information in an organization, and it includes the organization's manual and automated processes. In a narrow sense, the term information system (or computer-based information system) refers to the specific application software that is used to store data records in a computer system and automates some of the information-processing activities of the organization. Computer-based information systems are in the field of information technology. The discipline of business process modelling describes the business processes supported by information systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systems

What is SSIS?

Most simply The Social Study of Information Systems is interested in people developing and using technology and the "culture" of those people.

SSIS studies these phenomena by drawing on and using "lenses" provided by social sciences, including: Philosophy, Sociology, Social Psychology, Organisational Theory, and Political Science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Study_of_Information_Systems

Now that we finally define those terms, I know that you have some ideas in your mind that you want to express, but sad to say I am the one who will make this reflection, so it means it is my opinion that will be post here. (lol)

For me, giving some direct answer to this question is a really hard job. As what I have read from those articles and discussion they have some different points and ideas. Like in the discussion of MIS, it is said that it is a subset of the over all internal controls. As explained, it is likely means that MIS is way or process to manipulate or even manages the strategic process of business, technology, and any other human works. It could be considered as a way to help an individual become more control in his/her work. Likely in Science, it is considered as a step by step strategic process to conduct and compile a work more efficiently and directly. Considering MIS in our course description it could also have a positive influence for our course. Management Information System can have a big connection for our future work. Likely in saving file and important program, it would be better to have a specific management style to save your work. Another example is in conducting technological research and development product. In saving your work and personal data of such an important work you should compile and disseminate your program more clearly. Processing and giving orders to your program should also be exact to attain a precise outcome in your work. Processing information of the work done is also a part of the MIS system, it would help the person involve to detect and find the program needed more easily and accurately. MIS also worked as a Database Retrieval Application helps the user to have a more data storage keeper. It would give the user a more options and control on his database and could disseminate and delete whatever file he chooses.

To understand the meaning of MIS clearly let’s define it in the other way. Let us begin with the Management. The term “Management” was define to these components plan, direct, organize and control. Plan- the things you want to do but it is not done yet. With this planning component of the MIS, it is very important to have this so that you will have a better output of your plan example in managing business in a company. Direct- having a direct plan in a business or a direct goal/direction what is your mission and vision for example in a company, you have a goal to emerge directed in a higher productivity. Organize- the act of preparing something to make it order. Organize flow of managing also an important aspect to do when you are managing something. Control- having the power or the authority. To apply this in a company, it has the power or the authority to impose the rules and regulation of a company that should be implied and obey by the employee. Also the company also should have the control to impose or regulate the prices in a company.

To summary up my answer about the question I would say that I agree to the what the is our course description that is the Management Information System because in order to build or impose a course description it will take a long time to study why that was the course description they made and for the fact until now, we use it as our course description for the subject.

I hope I was able to give you some points or reason why I agree to that our course description is correct.

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