Management Information (and Control) System

This system has to be tailored to specific needs and may include routine information. The guidelines for designing a management information system are similar to those for designing systems and procedures and other control systems.

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The use of the computer can help a lot in this system by processing data towards logical conclusions, classifying them, and making them readily available for the manager's use in controlling. In fact, data do not be come information until they are processed into a use able form that informs.18 Managers need both accounting and non-accounting information about both external and internal environmental. The information should be qualitative as well as quantitative. The computer, plus operations research, has led to an enormous expansive of available managerial information regarding production and distribution, labour productivity. product cost etc.