MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS - PREFINAL EXAM

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It is a type of information system that supports management decision-making by providing various types of reports

Tactical Information System

These are types of budgeting information systems that permit managers to track and compare actual revenues and expenses

Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems

This system produces cash flow reports, which show the estimated amount of incoming and outgoing cash for a specific timeframe

Cash Management System

This system focuses on producing information for the acquisition or disposal of assets for a given timeframe.

Capital Budgeting System

This system produces reports that allow a manager to oversee an organization's investments in stocks, bonds, or other securities

Investment Management System

It is a type of information system that also has the ability to generate reports, but also has the capacity to create expected and unexpected output

Tactical Marketing Information System

This system allows managers to assess the productivity of a sales force, the profitability of certain locations, and the success of the products further categorized by salespersons, location, and target demographic.

Sales Management System

This particular system governs advertising and promotional tactics in order to achieve sales goals set by upper management

Advertising and Promotion System

This system provides information to managers that allows them to set prices for products and services

Pricing System

This system provides information on costs for using various distribution channels, information may include timeframes for deliveries

Distribution Channel System

This system ensures an organization's marketing strategy can continue to satisfy customers by monitoring market volatility

Competitive Tracking System

These are designed to be goal-oriented; this means that these types of systems are designed to support the overall goals and directions of an organization

Strategic Level Information System

It is an information system that handles strategic marketing activities, such as segmentation of the market based on target demographics and criteria

Strategic Marketing Information System

This system creates different types of sales forecasts, from industry sales, product/service sales, to forecasts of market segments

Sales Forecasting System

This system handles marketing research, whether for research departments for large organizations or via consultants for smaller enterprises

Marketing Research System

The objective of this system is to make information about consumer preferences obtained from marketing research systems, and from customer inquiries available

Product Planning and Development System

It is a type of information system can provide support for production decisions, such as designing and lay-outing of production facilities

Strategic Production Information System

This system relies on a variety of internal and external sources of information

Site Planning and Selection System

This particular system allows top managers to make better or more informed decisions on which production technologies should be used for a product or service

Technology Planning and Assessment System

This system handles process positioning, or vertical integration, which are processes that are to be performed for any given product or service

Process Positioning System

This system processes information for decisions concerning proposed facilities; information for this system includes facility design and layout

Facility Design System

It is a type of information system that supports HR managers in handling aspects of the acquisition, allocation, and maintenance of an organization's workforce

Tactical Human Resource Information System

These systems create jobs or positions required by an organization

Job Analysis and Design Systems

These systems handle functions that provide an organization with a pool of qualified applicants that may fill vacant positions

Recruiting Systems

These systems allow HR managers to support the creation of compensation and benefit plans for employees

Compensation and Benefit Systems

These systems handle decisions for employee development, usually via capacity-building

Employee Training and Development Systems

It is facilitated by finding potential employees that meet certain criteria and creating training and development plans

Capacity-building

These systems ensure that replacements for key positions in the organization are available at all times

Succession Planning Systems

It is a type of information system that manages the organization's workforce as a whole. It allows an HR manager to formulate workforce plans and labor negotiations.

Strategic Human Resource Information System

These systems facilitate strategic long-term workforce planning and management using relevant data, such as those from other information systems

Workforce Planning Systems

These systems gather data from other HR information systems, as well as information from financial accounting systems and external sources

Labor Negotiation Systems