MIS: Management Information Systems Yong Choi School of Business CSU, Bakersfield

What is MIS? MIS: Management Information Systems –Collect, process, store and distribute information MIS is a general term for the computer-based information systems in private and public organizations that provide information for organizing, evaluating and efficiently running its business operations.

Change of Paradigm: Information Age –Bill Gates ($72.7 billion as of last month), List of GDPList of GDP –Primary TANGIBLE product of Microsoft (excluding game (Xbox 360) and other HWs) Population of “facebook.com” –800 million active users Vs. US (310 million) Why study MIS?

Globalization (Nike Corporation) –Global management thru MIS Organizational Change –Traditional middle management: collect, process, store and distribute information……………. Effect of Information Age

Better to have a job that complies with rules of information age…. Structured –Independent travel agencies –Routine & repetitive (problems are predictable) –Problems can be solved by applying standard solutions IBM WatsonWatson –Implication: exact cost of text message word-by-word Type of Jobs based on Type of Decisions-Makings

MIS Courses Lower Division Courses –MIS 200A: Software Productive Tools Upper Division Courses –MIS 300: Management Information Systems: Concepts and Applications –MIS/Econ 320: Intro. - Geographic Information Systems –MIS 330: Systems Analysis and Design –MIS/Logistics 340: Principles of Database Systems –MIS/Mktg 420: Electronic Commerce –MIS 440: Information Security and Privacy (Accounting?)

Careers and Recent Employment Systems Analyst Database Administrator Computer Facility Manager User Consultant MIS Project Manager Computer Crime Specialist ChvronTexaco Occidental Petroleum Aera Energy Paramount (Ag business) Bolt House (Ag business) Kern County Caterpillar State of California City of Bakersfield

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