The Significance of Management Information Systems for Enhancing Strategic and Tactical Planning

Abstract

Management Information Systems (MIS) is the key factor to facilitate and attain efficient decision making in an organization. This research explores the extent to which management information systems implemented to make successful decisions at two selected financial organizations. The research examined whether the selected financial institutions of Bahrain vary as to the use of Management Information Systems leadership of decision making for strategic and tactical planning purposes. The research adapted the quantitative research design to examine two research hypotheses. A total of 190 forms were equally distributed to those who are working at different management levels at the selected organizations. The results of the research showed that MIS was primarily used to enhance strategic planning in both financial institutions. The regression analysis revealed that Tactical planning is found to have no effect on Decision Making, while Strategic planning has a clear effect on the Decision Making Effectiveness in both organizations.

Management information systems and their impact on job performance among employees in the private sector: SAUDI Telecommunications companies

“…Found through statistical analysis that: " that there are significant statistical differences at the level of significance (α ≤ 0.05) for the application of management information systems to the telecommunications companies from the viewpoint of its workers due to experience ", this result is similar to a study (Karim, 2011) it showed no differences in terms of gender, age and experience variable.…”

“…As Shown in Table ( [4][5], there were positive attitudes toward the above questions because their mean were greater than the mean of the scale (3), but in different percentage.…”

“…To facilitate the decision-making process in this world of competition than ever, it is imperative that managers have the right information at the right time to close the gap between the need and expectation. To facilitate a better flow of information management with adequate Study of ( Karim, 2011) Title is " The Significance of Management Information Systems for Enhancing Strategic And Tactical Planning ", this study investigate in management information systems (MIS) is a key factor to facilitate the achievement of the efficiency of decisionmaking in the organization. This paper explores the extent to implement systems to make successful decisions in two of the selected financial organizations and administrative information.…”

The Impact of Computerized Information Systems on the Compliance of Internal Control Requirements According to ISA (315) in Jordanian Companies from the Perspectives of Their Employees

“…The researcher recommended the need to enact laws and develop new regulations that contribute in improving the effective use of computerized information systems at the Jordanian computer system companies.Keywords: computerized information systems, internal control, ISA (315)Accounting information system contains components that include several software and bank accounting information. Such systems are specifically designed to manage and handle the financial data which are introduced through the accounting software in the aim to extract and prepare reports, documents, financial transactions and other necessary papers needed by all beneficiaries and stakeholders (Karim, 2011).…”

Design and Implementation of Mobile Pigeon-Hole Alert System (PHAS)

“…The researcher in [8] stated that "information is an arrangement of people, data, process, and information technology that interact to collect, process, store and provide as output the information needed to support an organization," which indicates that information system is an arrangement of groups, data, processes and technology that act together to accumulate, process, store and provide information output needed to enhance and speed up the process of decision making. The researcher in [4] rightly observes that "the data processing manager might conceive it in terms of data, the records manager in terms of records and reports, the librarian or information scientist in terms of documents or other materials".…”