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Critical Thinking: Management Support Systems
Suppose you work for an organization with six facilities in different cities across the country, and over 900 employees. Management is comprised primarily of individuals with business rather than technical backgrounds. Many projects within the company are collaborative efforts, with teams made up of employees from different functional areas and located across the various facilities.
Your organization is looking for ways to improve decision making in order to achieve its strategic and operational goals. As the IT manager, you have been tasked with providing management with information on the various management support systems available.
Write a report that includes the following:
- A brief explanation of management support systems, in general, and the broad reasons for using such a system.
- A comparison of the types of management support systems, including what they are, how and when they might be used, and who would use them. Include examples of companies that utilize each type of system, but do not use the examples from the text.
- A discussion of the costs and benefits of utilizing management support systems.
Directions:
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
- Be five to six pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
- Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
- Support your submission with course material concepts, principles and theories from the textbook and at least four scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Management Support Systems
Thesis Statement: Management support systems include decision support systems (DSS),
executive information systems (EISs), Management Information System, Group support systems
(GSSs), and geographic information systems (GISs).
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Brief Explanation of MSSs
a. A Comparison of the Types of Management Support Systems
i. Decision Support Systems
ii. Group Decision Support System
iii. Executive Information Systems (EISs)
iv. Management Information Systems
b. Comparison between MIS, EIS, and DSS
c. Similarities between DSS and GDSS
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Costs and Benefits of Utilizing Management Support Systems
Running head: MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Management Support Systems
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Management Support Systems
The advent of technological progress has led to the evolvement of management support
systems, thereby meeting organizational needs as well as enabling effective decision-making.
Management support system refers to various types of information systems, which have been
designed to support particular aspects as well as kinds of decisions. It is worth noting that every
type of management support system is developed with distinct objectives and goals.
Management support systems include decision support systems (DSS), executive information
systems (EISs), Management Information System, Group support systems (GSSs), and
geographic information systems (GISs).
Brief Explanation of MSSs
Ștefănescu and Hunka (2011) noted that decision-making signifies one of the vital and
fundamental management activities whose quality affects the functioning of an enterprise.
Decision Support Systems are interactive information systems developed to help decision makers
in a corporation. DSS encompasses software, data, hardware, and statistical model. The center of
a computer system is comprised on inference mechanism and knowledge base. Of course, a solid
decision making support system is grounded on the theory that is employed in both knowledge
base and inference mechanism. Executive Information Systems are also collaborative
information systems, which provide directors with easy accessibility to external and internal
data, including digital dashboard and drill-down features. Tole and Matei (2016) purported that
EISs are kinds of management support systems, which facilities the access of i...
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