Information Systems for Management

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).

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.

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

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

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.