Management Information Systems (MIS)

Name: Management Information Systems (MIS)
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Learn How to Integrate Management Information Systems (MIS) to your Organizational Processes for More Efficiency

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Last updated 5/2023

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What you'll learn

Understand the Concept of Management Information System
Learn How MIS Integrate functional Information System within Organization
Understand How MIS within an Organization Relate to External Information System
Understand the Various Applications of Traditional and ICT Methods in MIS
Be Able to Carry Out Data Protection, Security, Back-up and Standard System Function
Understand Ethical, Security and Control Issues as it Relates to the Information Age

Course content

4 sections • 13 lectures • 38m total length

Course Introduction2:38
Explore how MIS integrates internal and external information, supports data protection, security backup, and ethical controls while detailing MIS objectives, sources, processing methods, and security concepts.
Introduction II0:56
Explore the concepts of a management information system and how EMRs integrate with organizational information systems, covering data protection, security, ICT-based methods, internet use, email, and ethical security issues.
Theories of Management Information Systems3:19
Explain the theory behind management information systems, defining systems, data, information, and management, and show how management information systems integrate people, procedures, and computer resources to support decision making.
Objectives & Requirements of MIS4:32
MIS aims to eliminate duplication by unifying the organization into a system with integrated reports for decision making and planning, supported by a common database, data communication, and real-time access.

Functional Information Systems3:29
Functional information systems inform executives by recording, monitoring, and planning data from internal and external sources. They support top, middle, and low level management in short-term decision making and execution.
Information Classification4:46
Explore how management information systems integrate accounting, marketing, manufacturing, and human resources information systems to support strategic planning, productivity, and competitive advantage.
Management Level and the Hierarchy of Need of Information3:21
Explore how MIS classifies organizational information into personnel, employment, financial, and legal categories from internal and external sources, and how data becomes timely, accurate information for intelligence, design, and choices.

Data Processing Methods2:43
Explore data processing methods in MIS, from traditional manual methods to automatic and electronic processing, and ICT-based approaches that enable high-speed, accurate, large-volume information management.
Data Processing Methods II2:17
Explore how CRM software tracks customer interactions across departments to improve services and enable targeted marketing, while EDI and EDP automate data exchange and processing in the information age.
Data Protection & Security1:20
Understand data protection and security basics, including backups and preventing data damage, misuse, fraud, or loss. Explore access controls, identity and authentication tools, and a management-approved data access policy.

Data Security Levels1:26
Learn how data security protects privacy and personal data by enforcing access controls and ranking data on a 0–10 sensitivity scale, while hardware safeguards deter casual interference but not theft.
System Hierarchy & Relationships4:51
Describe how organizations function as layered systems from corporate to operational levels, with open and closed systems, resources, input–output relationships, and business subsystems like payroll and stock control.
Classification of Systems by Behaviour2:28
Classify systems by behavior, from probabilistic and stochastic to adaptive and self-organizing, and map MIS taxonomies like internal reporting, transaction processing, interactive and expert systems, and decision support.

Requirements

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Description

This course introduces you to the concept of Management Information System. It details how MIS Integrate functional Information System within organization, How MIS within an organization relate to External Information System, the different applications of Traditional Methods in MIS, data protection, security, back-up and standard system function, ethical, security and control issues relating to information age.

In this course, you will be able to list the objectives of management information system (MIS), list the requirements for management information system (MIS), the limitations of management information system (MIS) and the characteristics of management information system (MIS), and explain management levels and hierarchy. You will be able to explain the sources of information in an organisation. You will understand how management information system (MIS) integrate functional information, and how management information system, MIS makes information available.

You will gain capability in classifying organisation information into internal and external sources, list the qualities of good information; explain how data and information are represented in organisations, and how MIS in an organisation relates to external information

You will learn how data processing methods operates, list the advantages and disadvantages of the various data processing methods, and explain the terms Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Electronic Data, Interface (EDI) and Electronic Data Processing (EDP).

You will be exposed to the concept of data protection. You will understand how data security operates and explain how data security can be achieved. You will be able to differentiate between hardware and software-based security. You will understand backup and its importance.

Finally, you will be able to correctly explain the concept of ethical issues of information age, explain security and control issues and the techniques used in overcoming computer security threat.

Who this course is for:

Office Administrators / Administrative Personnel
Corporate Executives and Managers
Individuals Who Wish to Learn About Application of MIS

Management Information Systems (MIS)

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 11min

How MIS Integrate functional Information System within an Organization3 lectures • 12min

Data Processing Methods3 lectures • 6min

Data Security & Systems Hierarchy3 lectures • 9min

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