GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Information System

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Franklin Ramsoomair

Document Summary

A special form of is is a management information system ( mis ), which provides information for managing an enterprise. information system"s role is to create efficiencies and effectiveness across the organization: most businesses operate by functional areas (called functional silos, each area undertakes a specific core business function functional areas are interdependent for an organization to succeed, each functional area must not be a silo, if you want to be successful in business, in any field, you must understand information systems including: information systems basics roles and responsibilities in information systems. Management information systems (mis): is a functional area too it helps plan for, develops, implements, and maintains it hardware, software, and applications that people use to support the goals of an organization, to perform mis effectively, all organizations today have an internal is department often called it information technology, is information systems, or mis management information systems.