Management Information Systems

The aims of the course are to introduce the main concepts and tools of management information systems (MIS) and to develop students‘ skills of MIS structure and services analysis. The main topics of the course: structure, hardware and software of MIS, automated offices and groupware, standard models for financial calculations and accounting, tools for data analysis, internet and extranet technologies for business.

To provide students with the main concepts of management information systems (MIS), the tools used in MIS, to develop the skills of MIS structure and services analysis.

Computer Literacy (Group B) or the test on the basics of informatics based on the ECDL programme.

1. Purpose, structure, analysis methods, classification of management information systems (MIS) and their relation to business administration needs. 2. The main groups of VIS resources, information technology organisation tools. 3. Group work organisation tools and automated offices. 4. The e-society framework and its impact on business administration. 5. Functional structure of management information systems, analysis and design tools and methods. 6. Objectives, principles and tools of e-business organisation. 7. Automated institutions, their equipment and services. 8. Typical technologies and their implementation. Technological environment for the organisation of VIS. 9. Management information systems software. Adaptation of application packages to user needs 10. Service organisation in distributed systems. Use of Internet and intranet technologies. 11. Functional structure of management information systems, analysis and design tools and methods. 12. Tools for graphical representation and trend analysis of statistical data. 13. Analytical reports and scenarios and tools for analysing scenarios of business situations, processing of expert estimates. 14. Computational tools for solving optimisation problems and models of these problems. Their application to the development of optimal production plans, transport and scheduling problems. 15. Database technology and its application to the structuring and management of management information, e.g. in finance, marketing, personnel management and other areas. Data mining tools. 16. Collective and individual use databases, data security and the principles of the Internet interface. 17. Principles and tools for modelling in spreadsheets. Models of typical management tasks. Modelling of investment analysis tasks. 18. Implementation of database technology in a spreadsheet. Development and use of data control, filtering tools and search queries.

The student identifies and defines at least half of the given concepts of MIS The student identifies and defines at least half of the given functional structures of MIS The student describes at least half of the presented typical services provided by MIS The student describes at least half of IT which had the biggest impact on business administration and explains their advantages The student identifies and evaluates the main models of management situations and answers at least half of the questions presented about their applying The student identifies and describes the main tools of databases and the technologies of data retrieval and answers at least half of the questions presented for the analysis of the problem The student is able to prepare electronic reports about the work carried out in a computer lab and present them according to at least half of the questions formulated for this work