What are the benefits of Management Information System?

Answer 1

1. Improves personal efficiency
2. Expedites problem solving(speed up the progress of problems solving in an organization)
3. Facilitates interpersonal communication
4. Promotes learning or training
5. Increases organizational control
6. Generates new evidence in support of a decision
7. Creates a competitive advantage over competition
8. Encourages exploration and discovery on the part of the decision maker
9. Reveals new approaches to thinking about the problem space
10. Helps automate the Managerial processes.

Defn: dss: Decision Support Systems (DSS) are a specific class of computerized information systems that supports business and organizational decision-making activities

Definition: Management Information Systems (MIS) is the term given to the discipline focused on the integration of computer systems with the aims and objectives on an organisation.

It does the following function .

- sub serves managerial function
- collects stores , evaluates information systematically and routinely
- supports planning and control decisions
- Includes files , hardware , software , software and operations research models

It Facilitates planning

In Minimizes information overload

MIS Encourages Decentralization

It brings Co ordination

It makes control easier

MIS assembles, process , stores , Retrieves , evaluates and Disseminates the information

Answer 2

Some of the benefits of the management information system are that it improves efficiency and expedites problem solving. The other benefit is that increases the organizational control.