M.I.S. Reflection Learning

One of our subjects for this semester is the M.I.S. (Management Information System) handled by
our teacher Dr. Randy S. Gamboa. According to him he is now the President of the IT association which
now i believe that he is. He is a very very strict teacher specially on uniform and time management. There is a punishment to every students who violated his rules. Some punishment is that you need to have a talent portion such as "singing" or "dancing".

Here are some information about M.I.S.:

Definition: Management Information Systems (MIS) is the term given to the discipline focused on the integration of computer systems with the aims and objectives on an organization. The development and management of information technology tools assists executives and the general workforce in performing any tasks related to the processing of information. MIS and business systems are especially useful in the collation of business data and the production of reports to be used as tools for decision making.

We did a question and answer portion about Management Information System(MIS), and the question is, "Is it correct that Management Information System (MIS) is the right course description?", according to our facilitator Dr. Randy S. Gamboa, by separating the "M" from "IS" which is "Management", the word management according to si Gamboa has four description (Planning, Directing, Organizing, and Controlling), and "IS" which is Information System.

According to wikipedia, Management in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, directing, and controlling (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources and natural resources. Management can also refer to the person or people who perform the act(s) of management. "IS" which is the acronym for "Information System" and according to wikipedia in a general sense, the term Information System (IS) refers to a system of people, data records and activities that process the data and information in an organization, and it includes the organization's manual and automated processes. In a narrow sense, the term information system (or computer-based information system) refers to the specific application software that is used to store data records in a computer system and automates some of the information-processing activities of the organization. Computer-based information systems are in the field of information technology. The discipline of business processing modelling describes the business processes supported by information systems.

Sir Gamboa gave us some equation about this course MIS, according to him:

IS = IT + PW
it stands for Information System = Information Technology + People Ware

IT = HW + SW
it stands for Information Technology = Hardware + Software

so the eqaution could be simplefies as:

IS = HW+ SW + PW
it stands for Information system = Hardware + Software + Peopleware

now to base on the question, "Is it correct that Management Information System (MIS) is the right course description?", we gather some information that management is not the right word in the course decription because Information system includes people ware and people ware cannot be manage. But for me, MIS is right course description because IT should be manage. It is that, people ware is included "IS" because only people could manage the IT and only people could revolve the system of information. Some students said that Leading is the right word to replace the word Management but for me it is not the right one because Hardware and Software or simply the IT are just human made and cannot be lead. Yes, Management describes as (planning, directing, organizing and controlling) and you cannot direct, control, organize and plan people, but the main reason there is how people manages the Hardware and the Software so that the INFORMATION SYSTEM will continue to revolve.


GOD BLESS!!!