Management Information Systems The State Of Art

Abstract

Having adopt€d the title for this paper, I consrlted "The Penguin English Dicdonary" (13) to flnd out what was talking about'
Sy$em: Methodically aranged set of ideas, pdnciples' methods' p(ocedures, etc. (For purposes of this paper "etc" includes comFrter hardware'
software and application proSrams.)
Information:act of telling or of imparting lnowledge'
Management Group of ex€cudves directing an industrial udetuIing'
Read in that order, those definitions provide a reasonable descripuon
of *nai is eenetAty thougbt of today as a Management lnformatiol lf:i
The "Ma{uarie University Calendar" (l I ) informed me that "stat$tlc-s' rn
is broadesi sense, is tlle art of surnmadzing and exracting informltigD f,rom
o.a, UJfAng .oa"fs to simulae reality, and making decisions on the basis of
these models."

Keywords

• Management
• Information
• Systems

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