MIS PREFINAL
Tactical Information System
- It is 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
- These are types of budgeting information systems that permit managers to track and compare actual revenues and expenses in order to produce estimates for expected revenues and expenses.
Applications of Tactical Accounting and Financial Information Systems
+ Cash Management System–produces cash flow reports, which show the estimated amount of incoming and outgoing cash for a specific timeframe
+ Capital Budgeting System – focuses on producing information for the acquisition or disposal of assets for a given timeframe.
+ Investment Management System – produces reports that allow a manager to oversee an organization’s investments in stocks, bonds, or other securities as a separate.
Tactical Marketing Information 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, such as comparative and descriptive information, summarized data as opposed to detailed data, data sources, and information processed from subjective and objective data.
Applications of Tactical Marketing Information Systems
+ Sales Management System – It allows managers to assess the productivity of a sales force, the profitability of certain location
+ Advertising and Promotion System – It governs advertising and promotional tactics in order to achieve sales goals set by upper management.
+ Pricing System – It provides information to managers that allows them to set prices for products and services.
+ Distribution Channel System – It 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 – It 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; this means that these types of systems are designed to support the overall goals and directions of an organization, based on forecasted and/or researched information.
Strategic Marketing Information System
- It is an information system that handles strategic marketing activities, such as segmentation of the market based on target demographics and criteria,selection of preferred marketsegments,the planning of products and services to meet demands, and forecasting of sales based on market segments and products.
Applications of Strategic Marketing Information Systems
+ Sales Forecasting System –It creates different types of sales forecasts, from industry sales, product/service sales, to forecasts of market segments.
+Marketing Research System – It handles marketing research, whether for research departments for large organizations or via consultants for smaller enterprises. .
+ Product Planning and Development System – It is to make information about consumer preferences obtained from marketing research systems, and from customer inquiries available; the information is then used to develop new products with specifications that meet the criteria.
Strategic Production Information System
- It is a type of information system can provide 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.
Applications of Strategic Production Information Systems
+Site Planning and Selection System – It 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 – It 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 – It handles process positioning, or vertical integration, which are processes that are to be performed for any given product or service.
+ FacilityDesignSystem – This systemprocesses 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.
Tactical Human Resource Information 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.
Applications of Tactical Human Resource Information Systems
+Job Analysis and Design Systems – These systems create jobs or positions required by an organization.
+ Recruiting Systems – These systems handle 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 – These systems allow HR managers to support the creation of compensation and benefit plans for employees.
+Employee Training and Development Systems – These systems handle decisions for employee development, usually via capacity-building.
+Succession Planning Systems – These systems ensure that replacements for key positions in the organization are available at all times.
Strategic Human Resource Information System
It is a type of information system that manages the organization’s workforce as a whole.
Applications of Strategic Human Resource Information Systems
+ Workforce Planning Systems – These systems facilitate strategic long-term workforce planning and management using relevant data, such as those from other information systems.
+ Labor Negotiation Systems – 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.