Management Information Systems

Module No.

Modules Contents

No. of Sessions

70 Marks  (External Evaluation

I

Organisation and Information Systems:

The Organisation:

• Structure, Managers and Activities.
• The level of People and Types of Decisions and their Information Needs.
• Changing Environment and its Impact on Business - The IT/IS and its Influence.

Information Systems:

• Data, Information and its Attributes.
• Information Systems – Meaning, Functions and Dimensions and need.

Strategic business use of IS:

• Interdependence between Organization and IS
• IS Strategies for Competitive advantage using Porter’s Five Forces Model and Value Chain Model

10

17

II

Types of Information systems - I:

• Meaning, Functions and Applications of:
• Transaction Processing Systems
• Management Information Systems
• Decision Support Systems
• Executive Support / Information Systems
  • Digital Dashboards
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Expert Systems

10

18

III

Types of Information systems - II:

Meaning, functions and applications of:

• Functional system:
  • Financial
  • Human Resource
  • Marketing
  • Production and Operations
• Enterprise Systems: Business Process integration
  • ERP
  • Supply chain management systems
  • CRM
  • Business Intelligence

10

18

IV

Ethical Issues Pertaining to IS:

• Ethical Responsibilities of Business Professionals
• Computer crime – Hacking & Cracking, Cyber theft, Unauthorized use at Work, Software Piracy, theft of Intellectual Property, Viruses & worms, Adware and Spyware

Information Security:

• First line of Defense – People /Employees
• Second line of defense – Technology for Authorization, Prevention, Detection and response

Contemporary/ Emerging Technologies:

• Cloud andMobileComputing
• E-commerce, m-commerce
• Internet of Things

10

17

V

Practical:

Students should simulate an organisation and its processes and create a hypothetical information system.

Students should study the information systems adapted by various business entities.

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(30 marks

CEC)