Management Information System And Corporate Organization

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background to the Study Management Information Systems are the instrumentation of an organization.  Their interfaces to the human controllers of business serve as the ‘dials and gauges’ that allow these controllers to ‘read off’ the current state of their organization.  They may record and model all or part of the organization’s activities and provide indicators of any actual or predicted change in state.  Of most value, they record or predict the rate, direction and timing of such changes. Information guide decision makers in reaching a valid conclusion and ma…