...Financial Management • •STRUCTURE • Management Information Systems • SUSTAINABLE • Impact • Assessment • Career Development • Strategic Planning • SYSTEMS • Supervision • Objectives • Program DEVELOPMENT Series 2 ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT Monitoring and Evaluation • SUSTAINABILITY • Module 4 Monitoring and Evaluation and Management Information Systems (MIS) 2/ MIS, Monitoring & Evaluation Introduction Monitoring and Evaluation Process points: Types and levels of monitoring and evaluation activities Some monitoring and evaluation definitions What are indicators? Methods and tools for monitoring and evaluation Steps in planning and conducting monitoring and evaluation ❐ Tools and techniques: How to write your evaluation report Tips for improving monitoring and evaluation of your project Management Information Systems (MIS) ❐ What is on MIS? ❐ Why is an MIS important? Sources for decision making, monitoring, and evaluation ❐ Targets Designing an MIS Using data to inform your MIS: conducting a baseline study Performance information Key questions in designing an MIS Institutionalizing an MIS in an organization MIS: step-by-step Using MIS outputs for decision-making How is information used in the organization? ❐ How does information flow in your organization? A word about reporting ❐ Tips and Tools: Report preparation checklist A final word about evaluation ❐ Process evaluation ❐ Output evaluation ❐ Effects evaluation ...
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...Information Systems Proposal BIS/220, Business Information Systems Table of Contents Contents Introduction 3 Our Goal 4 Types of Information Systems 4 Transaction Processing System 4 Office Automation 4 Management Information System 5 Functional Area 5 Enterprise Resource Planning 5 Table 1 Information Systems 5 Conclusion 8 References 9 Information Systems Proposal Introduction This plan will discuss opening a brick and mortar music store that will cater to both the old and young alike. This will require loan of $75,000. The city of Temecula has experienced a large growth in their population over the last several years that enjoy shopping the boutiques that Old Town Temecula has to offer. There are a numbers of visitors and local residents that enjoy purchasing movies, clothing items, antiques, gifts, and music. Old Town Temecula does not offer a record store that provides music that is fairly priced and a wide selection of records from the past for the everyday listener or the serious collector. I propose that Old Town Temecula Records can sell a vast selection of music products to those who are devoted to music and provide a relaxing environment where patrons may have the opportunity to listen to the music prior to making their purchase. Our Goal Our ultimate goal of Old Town Temecula Records would provide a good quality and variety of nostalgic music products, excellent customer service at fair and competitive...
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...Information Systems Proposal October 6, 2014 BIS/220, Business Information Systems Table of Contents Introduction 3 Our Goal 3 Types of Information Systems 4 Transaction Processing System 4 Office Automation 4 Management Information System 4 Functional Area 4 Enterprise Resource Planning 4 Table 1 Information Systems 5 Conclusion 8 References 9 rcvg t Information Systems Proposal So, let's discuss opening a brick and mortar music store that will cater to both the old and young alike. This will require loan of $75,000. The city of Temecula has experienced a large growth in their population over the last several years that enjoy shopping the boutiques that Old Town Temecula has to offer. There are a numbers of visitors and local residents that enjoy purchasing movies, clothing items, antiques, gifts, and music. Old Town Temecula does not offer a record store that provides music that is fairly priced and a wide selection of records from the past for the everyday listener or the serious collector. I propose that Old Town Temecula Records can sell a vast selection of music products to those who are devoted to music and provide a relaxing environment where patrons may have the opportunity to listen to the music prior to making their purchase. Our Goal Our ultimate goal of Old Town Temecula Records would provide a good quality and variety of nostalgic music products, excellent customer service at fair and competitive prices....
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...Operational-level systems are information systems that support the: a. long-range planning activities of senior management. b. decision-making and administrative activities of middle managers. c. day-to-day processes of production and shipping only. d. elementary activities and transactions of the organization. Answer: d Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 40 | 2. | The principal purpose of __________________ is to answer routine questions and to track the flow of transactions through the organization. a. strategic-level systems. b. operational-level systems. c. management-level systems. d. knowledge management systems. Answer: b Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 40 | 3. | Management-level systems are information systems that support the: a. long-range planning activities of senior management. b. knowledge and data workers in an organization. c. decision-making and administrative activities of middle managers. d. day-to-day processes of production. Answer: c Difficulty: Easy Reference: p. 40 | 4. | A relocation control system that reports on the total moving, house-hunting, and home financing costs for employees in all company divisions is an example of a(n): a. knowledge management system. b. operational-level systems. c. strategic-level system. d. management-level system. ...
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...MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM. QUESTION 1 What is MIS? Explain different types of information system serving at different levels in organization. Give suitable example. ANSWER Management Information System provides information in the form of reports and displays to managers and many business professionals. For example, sales managers may use their network computers and web browser to get instantaneous displays about the sales results of their products. TYPES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN AN ORGANIZATION. (i) TRANSACTION PROCESSING SYSTEM: These are important examples of operation support systems that record and process data resulting from business transactions. The processing is either batch or on-line processing. (ii) EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM: This provide critical information in easy-to-use displays to a variety of managers .For example, top executives may use touch screen terminals to instantly view text and graphic displays that highlights key areas of organizational performance. (iii) DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS: This gives direct computer support to managers during decision-making process. For example, advertising mangers may use electronic spreadsheet program to do what –if analysis directly at meeting. (iv) PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS: It monitors and control physical processes through electronic sensors linked to computers continually monitor processes and make instant (real time) adjustments e.g. petroleum refinery processes. (v) ENTERPRISE...
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...Information Systems Lance Kaea Carson BSA 310 May 15, 2011 Rich Harrell Critical Information Systems An Information System is an organizations framework for efficiency, productivity, and functionality. It “is a collection of hardware, software, data, people and procedures that are designed to generate and disseminate information and data that supports the activities of an organization” (International Graduate, 2011). Kudler Fine Foods is an organization specializing in providing domestic and imported sustenance to consumers. This paper clarifies an information system critical to their business process and examines how this system has an effect on the organization’s intricate structure. Information Systems Information systems used by organizations often follow a “traditional hierarchical structure” (Turban & Volonino, 2010. p.42). The structure commonly consists of seven functional types (1) Personal and Productivity Systems, (2) Transaction Processing Systems, (3) Functional and Management Information Systems, (4) Enterprise Systems, (5) Inter-organizational Systems, (6) Global Systems, and (7) Special Systems. Each category plays an essential role in the overall function of an organization when utilized. The development of an application program is used to execute or support a specific organization task or business process through the use of that information system. Although system types and applications can be independent of each other, most systems and programs...
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...standard International Organization for standardization (ISO) 9000, Quality management systems – fundamentals and vocabulary. The research is based on the Halliday framework and his language functions approach. The theoretical basis on this research is based on Halliday, Swales and Bhatia genre interpretations. In ISO 9000 standard appears transactional language function and the main purpose of it is to deliver information. Quality manual is message oriented because there are written standards which you have to achieve to get ISO 9000 certification. In conclusion the research shows that Hallidays framework completely reveals the generic structure of ISO 9000 quality manual. Key words: Genre analysis, generic structure, ISO 9000 quality system Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………..1 1. Literature review………………………………………….……….…….3 1. Research design ……………………………………………….....5 2. Empirical part…………………………………………………………….6 Conclusions………………………………………………………………….8 Theses………………………………………………………………………..9 References…………………………………………………………………...10 Introduction Genre analysis has been a relevant part of text analysis for years and it is important to distinguish the generic structure of the text to understand it completely. The theme- Genre analysis of ISO 9000 quality management systems-fundamentals and vocabulary was chosen because nowadays it is very topical -if...
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...healthcare sector. The company was started on a partnership basis in 1978 by the managing director and his partner. After the partner left ten years later, the managing director started his own business on small scale on Seri Kembangan. He focuses more on the business in private hospital, medical, and clinic. During the early 1990, the managing director changed his company name and registers it as Excellent Sdn Bhd. Three years later the company started to increase the human resources to fifty employees and increase their ability to design and develop new product because they had more machinery. ESB Company keeps on improving their product from very manual basic medical furniture then slowly to the hydraulic to the electrical hydraulic system and electrical motorized medical furniture. Currently ESB now has one hundred employees including those at the warehouse. 2.0 Internal analysis issue 3.1 Marketing issues Marketing issues that found inside the EBS Company are in the beginning, company managed to successfully manufacture their first hydraulic furniture in late 1990s and then supply the first batch to a local private hospital. Two years later the company successfully manufactured their first electric furniture and supplied the first batch to Columbia Pacific Healthcare Hospital. A company actively participated in international and local trade fairs. This is a attract a acquiring new customer from Switzerland, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh as...
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...Internet Tools at Dirt Bikes IT/205 8/7/11 Axia College of University of Phoenix Internet Tools at Dirt Bikes Many organizations use the Internet and the Web technology to make their business more productive, efficient, and to cut cost. Developing a central information system (IS) is vital to organizing and storing information pertaining to all company processes. An IS will make the” six important business objectives: operational excellence; new products, services, and business models; customer and supplier intimacy; improved decision-making; competitive advantage; and survival” achievable. (Laudon & Laudon, 2009,p7) “Information systems and technologies are some of the most important tools available to managers for achieving higher levels of efficiency and productivity in business operations.” (Laudon & Laudon, 2009, p7) A firewall is important to have to make a security barrier that ensures that the information within the company’s information systems safe from hackers and access by outside sources. A system’s firewall is just one of many ways a company can ensure the safety of their private information. All employees need to be linked in a way that will make information sharing and communication more efficient. Creating an intranet is one way to do this. Intranets allow the company’s sales and marketing, human resources, and manufacturing and production departments to have a private and protected network where they can communicate with each other. In order for this...
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...company wants to attain greater market share and acceptability. Through this paper we’ll discuss the quality improvement systems or processes adopted by Hartman Industries in order to gain and retain more and more customers and success. According to Hartman Industries, LLC (2009) the company is considered to be colossal and a leader in plastic injection molding. To be massive and in top positions Hartman Industries has adopted strategies to manage their accuracy and exactness in regard to plastic injection molding. Hartman Industries succeeded because of their efforts in implementing and improving the ISO 9000 standards. They have come up with their own quality control programs which ensure that the quality delivered is up to the mark and as per the requirements of the present trends. The company is highly renowned for their quality work which they deliver in accordance to their outstanding quality control standards. These standards are set and maintained with the help of Six Sigma, thorough research and pertaining to the advanced technology. Identify a quality management system for process or organizational improvement As per UOP (2009) Hartman Industries can be considered as the leader and on the top position in the field of plastic injection molding. This leadership and renowned position has been attained by the company through the total quality management system which they have adopted to deliver the best quality. According to Goestch (2010) Fredrick Taylor brought the concept...
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...Hartman Industry’s R&D Department strives to maintain its position as the industry leader by continuously identifying industry trends” (University of Phoenix, 2009). A quality management system would meet the needs of Hartman Industry’s focus and provide organizational improvement. This paper discusses the quality management system for organizational improvement and summarizes the requirements for that system. The industry’s benefits of this quality system are clearly defined as well as the variation identified in the as-is flow chart. This paper also details the implementation plan and quality tools used for identifying and reducing process variability. Quality Improvement Implementation A total quality improvement plan for Hartman Industry’s LLC, will allow the industry to continue to maintain the position of industry leader. “Attention to detail, extreme precision, and high quality control standards are the hallmarks of Hartman Industry’s” (University of Phoenix, 2009). Hartman Industry’s has found success by focusing on improvement in the area of research and development and the organizations ISO 9000 standards and Six Sigma processes. The industry plans to continue to improve its quality management system and develop and implement the requirements for that system. Quality Management System Hartman Industry’s LLC, has strived to be a top notch leader in researching, developing, and manufacturing plastic injection molding. Hartman also realizes that it must continue...
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...Canadian University of Dubai Management Information Systems MBA Program Project MIS Project Project Proposal An organization encounter some difficulties in its performance for achieving high quality products/services. Consequently it can not compete with its competitors in the marketplace. The top executives decided to carry out a thorough analysis of the organization activities. They have come up with some suggestions that may improve the organization performance. They decided to develop Information Systems to some of its activities such as the following: Activities MIS Project Reporting Activities. Production Planning Activities. Facilities Locations Activities. Billing Activities. Services Activities. Personnel Activities Sales and Marketing Activities Finance and Accounting Activities Human resources Activities Manufacturing and Production Activities MIS Project You are required to do the following: Select one activity that could be of interest to you or suggest any activity of your choice that is related to your work. Use your notes, handouts, reference books, organization documents, research papers and the internet to prepare the final report of your project. Citation must be evident. MIS Project (continue) You are required to do the following: In addition to your report a power point presentation is required. You will give a presentation of your project by the end of the course. The project is divided into three...
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...To our Respondents, We are the Business Management students of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila and presently working on our thesis entitled “The Effectiveness Of Quality Management System focusing on the Peoples Involvement by the selected employees of Minerva Marine Agency Incorporated”. In compliance with the requirement, we would like ask support in answering the following questions. Your survey response will be strictly confidential. If you have questions at any time about the survey or procedures you can contact the following numbers: Lhovely: 09334948320 Cheska: 09227916597 Arvy: 09153151025 Louie: 09163511691 Thank you for your cooperation and may God Bless you! Respectfully yours, Lhovely Keinth L. Lagarteja Cheska Marie C. Salazar Arvy Keith C. Matematico Louie R. Novio SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES Respondent’s Profile Name (optional):_____________________________________________________________ Please specify your department_________________________________________________ 1. To what extent are the 8 principles of Quality Management system (QMS) implementation guides the employees on Minerva Marine Agency Incorporated. Please put a check on your answer: | Highly implemented | Implemented | Slightly implemented | Not implemented | Customer focused * Establishes and maintains good working relationships with customers by understanding and responding promptly and courteously to customer needs and expectations. * When a customer is dissatisfied...
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...Cost Accounting, 14e (Horngren/Datar/Rajan) Chapter 19 Balanced Scorecard: Quality, Time, and the Theory of Constraints Objective 19.1 1) Quality management provides an important competitive edge because it: A) reduces costs B) increases customer satisfaction C) often results in substantial savings and higher revenues in the short run D) All of these answers are correct. Answer: D Diff: 1 Terms: quality Objective: 1 AACSB: Ethical reasoning 2) Quality of design measures how closely the characteristics of products or services match the needs and wants of customers. Conformance quality: A) measures the same things B) is the performance of a product or service according to design and product specifications C) is making the product according to design, engineering, and manufacturing specifications D) focuses on fitness of uses from a customer perspective Answer: B Diff: 1 Terms: design quality Objective: 1 AACSB: Ethical reasoning 3) Which of the following FAIL to satisfy conformance quality? A) machines that fail to meet the needs of customers B) machines that break down C) depositing a customer's check into the correct account D) All of these answers are correct. Answer: B Diff: 2 Terms: conformance quality Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 4) Costs incurred in precluding the production of products that do NOT conform to specifications are: A) prevention costs B) appraisal costs C) internal failure costs D) external...
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...Moderate assessment Department of Education Moderate assessment A module of the Advanced Certificate: Education (School Management and Leadership) © Department of Education 2008 Creative Commons License The copyright for this work is held by the Department of Education. However, to maximise distribution and application, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons License. This allows you to copy, distribute, and display the work under the following conditions: By attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the Department of Education. For non commercial use1. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Profit-making entities who charge a fee for access to the work are not permitted to copy, distribute and display the work. By attribution, share-alike. Should this core material be supplemented in any way to create a derivative work, it is expected that the derivative work will be made available to the Department of Education to post onto the Thutong website for others to access and adapt as needed. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the Department of Education. Department of Education Sol Plaatje House 123 Schoeman Street Tshwane South Africa Tel: +27 12 312 5344 Fax: +27 12 323 0134 http://www.education.gov.za © Department of Education 2008 1 How does the Department of Education define commercial...
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