MIS (pre-finals)

Tactical Information System (TIS)

A type of information system that supports management decision-making by providing various types of reports, , such as regular summary reports, exception reports, ad hoc reports, and other types of recorded information.

Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems (TAFIS)

Types of budgeting information systems that permits managers to track and compare actual revenues and expenses in order to produce estimates for expected revenues and expenses.

Cash Management System (Application of TAFIS)

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

Capital Budgeting System (Application of TAFIS)

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

Investment Management System (Application of TAFIS)

This system produces reports that allow manager to oversee an organizations investments in stocks, bonds, or other securities as a separate, but nevertheless important aspect of cash management.

Tactical Marketing Information System (TMIS)

A type of information system  that also has the ability to generate reports, but also has the capacity to create expected and unexpected output, such as comparative and descriptive information, summarized data as opposed to detailed data, data sources, and information processed from subjective and objective data.

Sales Management System (Application of TMIS)

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

Advertising and Promotion System (Application of TMIS)

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

Pricing System (Application of TMIS)

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

Distribution Channel System (Application of TMIS)

This system provides information on costs for using various distribution channels; information may include timeframes for deliveries, time lags caused by use of certain channels, reliability ratings for channels based on delivery efficiency, and the market segment situation provided by the channels.

Competitive Tracking System (Application of TMIS)

This system ensures an organization's marketing strategy can continue to satisfy customers by monitoring market volatility, specifically by gathering and processing information about major competitors and their activities.

Strategic Level Information System

It is designed to be goal-oriented and to support the overall goals and directions of an organization

Strategic Marketing Information System (SMIS)

An information systems that handles strategics marketing activities, such as segmentation of the market based on target demographics and criteria, selection of preferred market segments, the planning of products and services to meet demands, and forecasting of sales based on market segments and products.

Sales Forecasting System (Applications of SMIS)

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

Marketing Research System (Applications of SMIS)

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

Product Planning and Development System (Applications of SMIS)

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

Strategic Product Information System (SPIS)

It is a type of information system that provides support for production decisions, such as designing and lay-outing of production facilities, as well as the selection for the facilities' technologies, policies, and personnel.

Site Planning and Selection System (Applications of SPIS)

This system relies on a variety of internal (within the organization, such as those from other information systems) and external (outside the organization, such as other related companies or contacts) sources of information.

Technology Planning and Assessment System (Applications of SPIS)

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.

Process Positioning System (Applications of SPIS)

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

Facility Design System (Applications of SPIS)

This system processes information for decisions concerning proposed facilities; information for this system includes facility design and layout, proposed technologies, personnel, expected completion dates, transportation, and ultimately the costs of materials for construction and maintenance.

Human Resource Information System (HRIS)

It has been developed to assist managers in managing human resources

Tactical Human Resource Information System (THRIS)

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

Job Analysis and Design Systems (Applications of THRIS)

This systems create jobs or positions required by an organization

Recruiting Systems (Applications of THRIS)

These systems handles functions that provide an organization with a pool of qualified applicants that may fill vacant positions identified by position control systems and/or job analysis and design systems.

Compensation and Benefit Systems (Applications of THRIS)

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

Employee Training and Development Systems (Applications of THRIS)

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

Succession Planning Systems (Applications of THRIS)

These systems ensures that replacements for key positions in the organizations are available at all times.

Strategic Human Resource Information System (SHRIS)

It is a type of information system that manages the organization's workforce as a whole.

Workforce Planning Systems (Applications of SHRIS)

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

Labor Negotiation Systems (Applications of SHRIS)

These systems gather data from other HR information systems, as well as information from financial accounting systems and external sources, in order to help create negotiating terms between the organization and labor unions.