Management Information System and Competitive Advantage

Abstract

We have known full of examples where the use of information technology and computer systems are seen as factors for competitive advantage. Even this paper aims to highlight how businesses provide satisfactory support and achieve competitive advantage through the management information systems. Information Management System aims to make enterprise environment as safe by providing information on competition and market . Therefore, we say that the quality of governance in an enterprise depends on the development and design of information systems based on computers that are designed according to the requirements and needs of the enterprise system. Increasing the pressure of competition forces businesses to fight for new research, new products and new markets, these businesses move can only afford having support from a quality information system. This support should enable higher quality solution for the governance of resources that businesses possess. In the last decade, information technology had a significant development. As the result, businesses have undergone a series of changes in the way of cooperation, presentation, finding buyers, suppliers, and placing products at the market. Management information systems to support management activities, this means that the structure of an information system can be classified within the hierarchy of activities, planning and management control. Activities vary according to levels of low, middle and senior management. Managers need different types of information, and the information needs determined by the decisions that must be taken. Contemporary management is increasingly dependent on information technology, because without a perfect technology and available data, the software may not have adequate information to be managers in making decisions.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n1p204