MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
For DICT MODULE III
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TOPIC 1: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM.................................................................3
TYPES OF SYSTEMS............................................................................................................................................5
DETERMINISTIC SYSTEMS..............................................................................................................................5
PROBABILISTIC SYSTEM.................................................................................................................................5
CYBERNETIC SYSTEMS...................................................................................................................................6
CLOSED SYSTEMS...........................................................................................................................................6
OPEN SYSTEMS..............................................................................................................................................6
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS.........................................................................11
TECHNICAL APPROACH................................................................................................................................12
BEHAVIORAL APPROACH.............................................................................................................................13
SOCIO-TECHNICAL APPROACH....................................................................................................................14
TOPIC2: USE OF INFORMATION SYSTEM IN MANAGEMENT...............................................................................17
Topic3: MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEM RESOURCES........................................................................21
Topic 4: INFORMATION SYSTEM PLANNING........................................................................................................23
Topic 5: INFORMATION SYSTEM PROJECT MANAGEMENT.................................................................................26
Topic 6: INFORMATION SYSTEM ACQUISITION...................................................................................................28
Economic feasibility.....................................................................................................................................30
Legal feasibility............................................................................................................................................30
Schedule feasibility......................................................................................................................................31
6. Financial feasibility..................................................................................................................................31
7. Resource feasibility..................................................................................................................................31
8. Market and real estate feasibility............................................................................................................31
Components of a Feasibility Study..................................................................................................................31
Topic 7: INFORMATION SYSTEMS MAINTENANCE..............................................................................................35
Topic 8: ROLE OF INFORMATION SYSTEM (IS) IN ORGANIZATION CHANGE........................................................37
Examples of organizational change.................................................................................................................37
Topic 9: INFORMATION SYSTEM ETHICS.............................................................................................................39
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