Types of management information systems

1. TYPES OF MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
María Camila Ramos Sierra.
Angie Daniela Salgado Bustos

2. The Organizational
Hierarchy: The Traditional
Information Systems
 Traditionally, managers
have used the
organizational hierarchy as
a system for gathering the
information they need like
a reports. This reports.
 Regular daily and monthly
reports were fed up the
chain so that top managers
could make decisions.
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7/06/the-5-types-of-organizational-structures-
part-1-the-hierarchy/

3. The hierarchy has
several drawbacks
 In organizations with many layers of
managers, it can take a long time for
information to travel up and for decisions
to travel down, reducing the timeliness of
that information
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4. Transaction-
Processing
Systems
 Transaction-processing
systems began to appear in
the early 1960s with the
advent of commercially
available mainframe
computers.
 Most managers in large
organizations use a
transaction-processing
system to handle tasks such
as payroll and customer
billing.
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5. Operations
Information
Systems
 An operations information
system is a system that gathers
comprehensive data, organizes
it, and summarizes it so that it
has value for managers.
 An operations information
system provides managers with
information they can use in
their nonroutine decision-
making.
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Travelers and System Managers.1997. Taken From:
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7septoct/p97sept30.cfm

6. Decision Support
Systems
 A decision support system
is an interactive computer-
based system that provides
models that help managers
make better-
nonprogrammed decisions.
 A decision support system
gives managers model-
building capabilities and
provides them with the
ability to manipulate
information in a variety of
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7. Very rarely does a
top manager use
such systems
 Most electronic
management information
systems are not yet
sophisticated enough to
handle the ambiguous
types of problems facing
top managers.
 3. An executive support
system is a sophisticated
version of a decision
support system that is
designed to meet the
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8. Bibliography
 Jones, Gareth. Contemporany Management. 8Th edition.1997.