Information Systems for Management

Paper Code: 
BBA 407
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course aims to integrate the core competencies of management as well as information technique and provide leverage to the management function so that the modern managers are not only able to take decisions but ‘informed decisions’ to enhance its effectiveness

8.00
Unit I: 
System:

System: System concepts, System control, types of System, handling System Complexity, General Model of MIS.
System analysis and design: Introduction, need for system analysis and design, introduction to SDLC, system development model (waterfall, prototyping).

10.00
Unit II: 
Development of MIS:

Development of MIS: development of long range plans of MIS, Business plan vs. MIS plan Class of Information: Organizational information, functional information, and operational information, determining the information requirement, development and implementation of MIS, evaluation of MIS.

10.00
Unit III: 
Applications of MIS:

Applications of MIS: Introduction, personnel, finance, production, materials, marketing management.

9.00
Unit IV: 
Decision Support System:

Decision Support System: Evolution, objective, types of Decisions, classifications, characteristics, components, development, relationship between MIS and DSS, applications of DSS (TPS, MIS, DSS and EIS).
Knowledge Management: Knowledge Management Systems, Knowledge based Expert Systems, MIS and the Benefits of DSS

Unit V: 
Network:

Network: Introduction, data transmission direction (simplex, half-duplex, full-duplex), topology (star, bus, ring), definition of client-server computing, components (hardware and software) and functions of Client-Server Systems, LAN-MAN-WAN, network management.

Essential Readings: 

Case Studies
Essential Reading:
1. Javedkar, W. S., Management Information System, Tate McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
2. Kanter, Jerome, Management Information System, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi
3. A.K.Gupta, - Management Information Systems (S.Chand & Company Ltd.)
4. D.P.Goyal, Management Information Systems-Managerial Perspectives, Macmillan

References: 

5. O’Brien, Management Information System
6. Mardic, R. G., Ross, J. E. & Clagget, J. R., Information System for modern management, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
7. Laudon, Kenneth C. and Laudon P. Jane, Management Information System: Managing the digital firm, Pearson Education, New Delhi.
8. Lucas, Henry C., Information Technology for Management, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi

Academic Year: 
2015-2016
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