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MIS-MANAGEMENT “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. . .” ---Dr. Levitt

Managemnt Information Service is for management must also be for the MIS. In formation systems designed for management are a management tool, but often neglected is the fact that MIS without management is useless. . . no more effective than the electric light which is never swithced on. The mere decision to utilize MIS is a significant management should be equally serious in its determination to utilize the information which it obtains in this fashion.

Management is often frustrated by the lack of useful information at the propitious time. Faced with tris, many managers substitute more easily attainable management goals for the intuitively correct ones. Unfortunately, therefore, not all managers are then ready to accept the useful information when the MIS does make it availablen many experimental areas management is a ble to proceed in a conservative fashion, operating in parallel---maintaining the existing system, while experimenting with the new. MIS means a comprehensive and substantial approach which demands commitment and massive influx of information. It is, in almost all cases, not economical to continue the status quo system after the MIS has been initiated. During the first several weeks of an MIS operation, of course, there is a prudent validation in which the older system is continued and compared with information generated by the MIS. The economic preclusion against dual system refers, then, to operation over months or years. Naturally, it is preferable to make a clean break from the existing systems as soon as the MIS has been validated, since the reduction in exixting procedures is usually a factor in the economic abalysis which indicated a favorable cost-effectiveness for the MIS.

O’Brien, James J. (1970). Management Information Systems: Copncepts, techniques and applications. -- Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.