This document outlines advantages and disadvantages of management information systems. The advantages include providing relevant information to facilitate planning and control, making data available in summarized form to reduce information overload, easing performance measurement to encourage decentralization, and improving coordination through shared awareness of actions and plans. Disadvantages include requiring constant monitoring of sensitive data, security issues like hacking, output quality depending on input quality, high implementation costs, inflexibility to upgrade software, only handling quantitative data, and potential increased unemployment.

1. Advantages and
Disadvantages

2. Advantages
 Provide relevant information for facilitating planning and timely
control
 Data is available in summarized form which minimize information
loading
 Ease in measuring performance helps in encouraging
decentralization in an organization
 Improve coordination as all departments are aware of course of
action or any change in plan
 Enhance quick, cheap and efficient communication
 Bring down linguistic, geographical and cultural boundaries.
 24*7 availability of information
 Automation helps in saving time and papers
 Creation of new type of jobs like computer programmer, system
analyzer, software and hardware developer etc

3. Disadvantages
 Require constant monitoring of sensitive data
 Security issues like hacking always prevail
 Quality of output depends on quality of input
 Implementation of MIS is costly as requires hardware,
software and training of human resources
 Lack of flexibility to upgrade software
 Takes only quantitative data
 Increase unemployment
 Effectiveness decreases due to frequent change in top
management and their policies