Report on Management Information Systems: Decision Making & Issues

This report delves into the complexities of decision-making within organizations, highlighting the reasons for decision failures, such as managerial inefficiency, misalignment with strategic goals, communication gaps, and resource constraints. It also examines the rational decision-making model, illustrating its application in organizing a quiz competition. Furthermore, the report identifies key challenges in deploying, operating, and maintaining Management Information Systems (MIS), categorizing them into cost investment, strategic management, globalization, digital infrastructure, and employee-related issues. The report outlines the role of information systems within various departments of a manufacturing firm, including Human Resources, IT, Research and Development, Purchasing, Inventory, Production, Finance, and Sales. The document concludes with a flowchart illustrating the relationships between different types of information systems, including management support, operation support, functional business, strategic information, knowledge management, and expert systems.

Management information system

Contents
Question 1:............................................................................................................................................2
Question 2:............................................................................................................................................2
Question 3.............................................................................................................................................3
Question 4:............................................................................................................................................4
Flowchart:..........................................................................................................................................5
References.............................................................................................................................................6

Question 1:
The research shows that half of the decisions made at the organization get failed. There are
several reasons of decision failure. The major reason of the decision incompatibility is the
manager inefficiency in identifying the area of concern and complexity of the problem. The
manager is not able to present his creative ideas for formulating the business plan and
operational inefficiency (Nutt, 2013). The decision taken is not aligned with the strategic goal
of the organization. The differences in the communication plan between a top executive and
the subordinates will create a scenario of decision failure. The availability of minimum
resource will increases the chance of conflict and chaos among the participant member. The
limited budget of the project makes incompatible for the project manager to take effective
decision for the betterment of the company. The failure of the decision occurs due to the
problems occurring in identifying the critical activities of the process model which results
into the delay of the project. The project manager does not have a clear perspective view
about the organization strength and weaknesses. I am not surprised with the failure of
decision because the effectiveness of the decision depends on the creative skills of the
manager.
Question 2:
The rational decision making model is the logical sequencing of the steps and procedures
which helps in achieving and accomplishing of the target. Yes, I have used the rational
decision making model for organizing a quiz competition at college level. The opportunity
was provided to me to arrange a quiz competition in the college campus (Blenko, Mankins,
Rogers, 2010). I take suggestion from my fellow members to make effective development of
the quiz competition planning from designing of the question to the seating arrangement of
the students and staff members. The selection of the best alternative is the most crucial part of
the process because the success and failure of the project depends on the selection process.
The rational development process model helps in arranging the propaganda for the Quiz
competition in the effective manner. The implementation of the quiz competition can be
successfully drawn by following the guidelines of the rational decision model (Heracleous,
2012). The logical plan of the quiz program is developed with the assimilative ideas of the
team members. The creative approach is indulge in the designing of the questions for the
quiz.

Question 3
The key issues which exist with the deployment of building, operating and maintaining the
management information system are categorised as
Cost investment challenge: The performance of the employees get improved with the
effective deployment of management information system because it helps in managing on
time delivery of the resources according to the requirement raised by the employees. The
extra funding is required for the initialization of the management information system in the
business platform
Strategic Management plan issue :The accomplishment of the strategic planning aligning
with the organization goal depends on the management process laid down for accomplishing
the business goal.
Globalization Issues: The development of the digital platform for the working of the
environment raises the concern to undertake the request and response driven by the external
parties in relation to the functional of the organization operation plan to meet their
requirement (Watson, Kelly, and Galliers, 2011).
Digital Infrastructure Issues: The development of the digital platform requires the
transformation in the organization infrastructure by setting out networking of computer to
manage centralised system of information sharing.
Employees issues: The employees put restriction to omit the use of management information
system because it requires new training and development program to cope with the new
digital platform of the organization (UK Essays, 2015). It can affect the expertise of the
working employees and diminishing the productivity.

Question 4:
Manufacturing firm Information system
Human
Resource
informati
on
system
Sales
Departm
ent
informati
on
system
Financial
Departm
ent
informati
on
system
Productio
n
Departm
ent
informati
on
system
Inventory
departme
nt
informati
on
system
Purchasin
g
departme
nt
informati
on
system
Research
and
develop
ment
informati
on
system
Information
technology
department
information
system
Validatio
n of the
target
validatio
n
Lead
optimiza
tion
Training
and
developm
ent
program
Analysis
of the
gaps
Order
entry
Billing
Sales
analysis
Forecastin
g
Distributio
n statistics
Demand
history
Stock
availabilit
y
Sales
control
policies
Procureme
nt of funds
Utilization
of funds
Long term
sources
Short term
sources
Short term
investmen
t
Current
liabilities
Current
assets
Working
capital
Investmen
t decision
Fine
planning
Data
acquisition
operating
procedure
Resource
managem
ent
program
Preventive
maintenan
ce
program
Logistics
data
transfer
and
operation
Availabili
ty of
stock
Under
stock
Over
Stock
Managin
g supply
and
demand
of
resources
and
products
Marketin
g price
analysis
Inbound
logistics
Outboun
d logistics
Recruitme
nt and
selection
of
employee
Personal
administra
tion
Training
and
developm
ent
program
Performan
ce and
reward
managem
ent system
Labour
relation
HP
planning
Talent
managem
ent
Technical
reporting
Data
Mining
Semantic
analysis
Open
search
engines

Flowchart:
Information System
Operation support
system
Management support
system
Human
Resource
informati
on
system
Sales
Departm
ent
informati
on
system
Financial
Departm
ent
informati
on
system
Productio
n
Departm
ent
informati
on
system
Inventory
departme
nt
informati
on
system
Purchasin
g
departme
nt
informati
on
system
Research
and
develop
ment
informati
on
system
Information
technology
department
information
system
Expert
system
Knowledge
management
system
Strategic
information
system
Functional
Business
system

References
Blenko, M., Mankins, M., Rogers, P. (2010). The decision driven organization. 1st ed.
Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2010/06/the-decision-driven-organization
Heracleous, L. (2012). Rational Decision making: Myths or reality. 1st ed. Retrieved from
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/07d6/936239908b8a351fc752beca96d7c38c02b0.pdf
Nutt, P. (2013). Why Decision fails. 1st ed. Retrieved from
https://www.bkconnection.com/static/Why_Decisions_Fail_EXCERPT.pdf
UK Essays. (2015). Building and operating IT system challenges. 1st ed. Retrieved from
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/information-technology/management-information-
concepts-information-technology-essay.php
Watson, R., Kelly, G., and Galliers, R. (2011). Key issues in information system management.
1st ed. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?
doi=10.1.1.199.643&rep=rep1&type=pdf