Management Information System

Guidelines for preparing a report on information systems of a company

Goal: You are required to prepare a report on information systems of a company for the top management. The report will be used by top management to understand what are the major information systems they have in the company, how do these systems help them in doing business, and what else should be done to utilize information systems for improving business performance. Deliverables: You will submit a report which should be 20-25 pages long( including texts, graphics and images and excluding appendices) that fulfils the goal mentioned above.

Guidelines in preparing the report: 1. Select a real company that allows you to get information about is information systems. 2. Identify the business model – what actually they sell, how do they get inputs, how do they process the inputs, and how do they deliver what they sell. 3. Identify the core business process of marketing, finance and operations functions. 4. Understand why these are considered as core processes. For example, a process is a core process because it deals with accounts receivables and any poor performance of this process will result in poor financial performance of the organization. Remember, the core processes are those processes, failure or improvements in which processes significantly increases revenues of the company or decreases costs of the company. 5. Identify the TPS, MIS, DSS and ESS the company has. Gather detail about these information systems, for example, the software, hardware, telecommunications network, database types, that are used by these systems. 6. Evaluate whether these systems (identified in step 5) are making any impact on the core processes. For example, if there is an accounting TPS, try to gather detail and understand what are the outputs of this TPS are and which core process (and the activities) are facilitated by the outputs of this TPS. 7. Evaluate what kind of systems that the company needs that the...