MIS as a Profession

After going through the spectacular growth in the information technology one might tend to feel that a good computer scientist can make a good MIS professional. Developing information systems call for people interaction, organisational understanding and inter personal skills that are generally not the thrust areas of the computer scienced professional. Keeping this view in mind ACM Curriculum Recommendation clearly outlines a separate profession with a mastery or organisation, viz. the Information System Executive.

There are various types of management information systems.

• Databank Information System
• Predictive Information System
• Decision Making Information System
• Decision Taking Information System.