MIS and System Concepts

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.