Learn about the components of business information systems, with an emphasis on data transmission, management information software, and the ways that businesses manage data.
Management Information Systems (MIS) is a formal discipline within business education that bridges the gap between computer science and well-known business disciplines such as finance, marketing, and management. In spite of this, most students will only take one or two MIS courses as part of their undergraduate program. The term Management Information Systems has several definitions that might depend on where you look or who you ask. Common among these many definitions is that MIS represents a collection of technologies, people, and processes that manage the information and communication resources of an organization. Even if you do not realize it, you use MIS every day. If you use email, you are using MIS since email is an information system--though you, the user, only see one end of it. If you log into a computer every morning and access or edit data on corporate servers, you are using information systems.
- Unit 1: Introduction to Management Information Systems
- Unit 2: MIS Basics: Hardware, Software, Networking, and Security
- Unit 3: Data and Databases
- Unit 4: Information Systems and Organization Strategy
- Unit 5: Information Systems Development
- Unit 6: Information Systems in Society and the World
- Describe the use and function of management information systems;
- Identify and describe the different roles of people in information systems;
- Explain the strategic value of information systems in the organization;
- Describe the impact of information systems in the larger context of ethics and globalization; and
- Identify trends in information systems that will impact the next generation of business.