Understanding Management Information Systems Role
Description:
Digitizing an enterprise is a core approach to designing effective and efficient solutions to business problems. Related and key idea of thinking for digitizing the enterprise is systems (an integrated set of elements that accomplish defined objectives). A digitized enterprise is not the same as a digital enterprise. The digitized enterprise is one that extensively uses systems and related automation to solve business problems. A digital enterprise is a web-based enterprise. A web based enterprise can also be considered as one that has been completely digitized.
Systems thinking has driven the understanding of business for many years. At the core of systems thinking is understanding how the defined components influence and relate to each other. There is no better example of systems than the structure of a typical business. Adding the feedback idea to systems we get a dynamic and adaptive view of a business, a key need in responding to changes in the environment around the business.
The perspective of management information systems (MIS) has evolved over time. Historically, MIS started with the view that groups of actions and their related enablers (documents, skills, procedures, policies) could be linked together and be semi-automated by computers. Today, MIS encompasses the management of the entire enterprise as a collection of interacting automated/manual information systems.
