What is the Role and Characteristics of Management Information System?
Role of MIS 1. Helps in quantitative as well as qualitative decision making process. 2. Helps in minimizing the element of surprise. 3. MIS helps decision maker to give a certain response, which may be either re – active or pro – active in nature. 4. Acts as a defensive mechanism as well as functions as a weapon for an offence. 5. Helps in creating a work culture based on information, in an organization. Characteristics of MIS MIS acts as a multi – disciplinary subject, depending heavily upon the various disciplines like management accounting, management science, organizational behavior, operations research, computer science etc. Nowadays MIS is totally based on the computers, but in the beginning it started with the electronic data processing, then it moved to the information systems, decision support systems, executive support systems etc. When MIS came into being, it was just a single integrated system but now it is a combination of sub systems, whi...