MIS and System Concepts
The MIS is an arrangement of data processing and information
systems in an orderly manner to support the management in achieving the business
objectives. The MIS boundaries cross the limits of the organization and draw the
data from the source external to the organization. MIS follows a generalized model of a
system as stipulated into the theory and performs on the principle of feedback
and control. It works on the principle of control by exception.
MIS is designed to provide the information which is
exceptional in nature form the point of view of business. The exceptions could
be abnormal events, surprising developments, shocking news, or something that
was not consistent with the exceptions.
The MIS must catch all such points and reports then to the concerned
management. It must, therefore, recognize all such possible points and provide a
measure for comparison with the actual performance. Unless such a feature is
included, the MIS will be supplying merely data and not information.
The MIS, initially, concentrates on the quality of in put
satisfying the parameters, viz., impartiality, validity, reliability,
consistency and age. A large amount
of system effort is spent in this area to ensure the quality of the input.
The MIS provides a system for data processing and data
analysis. It uses a number of
applications and business models, operational research models and applications
and business models, operational research models and application packages to
produce the information. The MIS has
a provision to display the information and also print it in a report format. It also provides a facility to store the
intermediate results, which are used in a number of other systems. The MIS is a
combination of the deterministic and the closed systems, and the probabilistic
and the open systems.
By nature, the MIS is an open system interfacing continuously
with the internal and the external environment and is self organizing to meet
the ever increasing and changing information needs of the organization.
