Editing Management information system (section)

{{Short description|Information system used for decision-making}}
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A '''management information system''' (MIS) is an [[information system]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Information Systems for Business and Beyond|last=Bourgeois|first=David T.|publisher=The Saylo Academy|year=2014|page=5}}</ref> used for [[decision-making]], and for the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information in an organization. The study of the management information systems involves people, processes and technology in an organizational context. In other words, it serves, as the functions of controlling, planning, decision making in the management level setting.<ref>{{cite web|title=What is Management Information Systems?|date=January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509003228/http://mays.tamu.edu/info/what-is-mis/|archive-date=May 9, 2015|url=http://mays.tamu.edu/info/what-is-mis/|publisher=Mays Business School}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Leveraging People Processes and Technology|url=https://saunders.rit.edu/undergraduate/majors-minors/management-information-systems-mis-degree-overview|publisher=Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology|date=2017-04-28}}</ref>

In a corporate setting, the ultimate goal of using management information system is to increase the value and profits of the business.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umassd.edu/charlton/programs/mis/|title=Management Information Systems|publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Dartmouth]]|website=umassd.edu|access-date=2018-04-11|archive-date=2017-12-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218055557/http://www.umassd.edu/charlton/programs/mis/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Lucey|first1=Terry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0bu30rNgJsC&q=what+is+management+information+system&pg=PR14|title=Management Information Systems|last2=Lucey|first2=Terence|date=2004|publisher=Cengage Learning EMEA|isbn=978-1-84480-126-8|language=en}}</ref>