This program is excellent for students who enjoy working with computers and technology. Beta Gamma Sigma is an honorary organization available only through Colleges of Business that are accredited through the International Association for Management Education. The main goal of the organization is for faculty to honor students with the highest academic achievements.
The College of Business Student Ambassador program provides our business students the opportunity to become leaders through a variety of ambassador activities each year. The organization comprises some of our best and brightest business students at Mississippi State University. The student ambassadors volunteer their time to promote the College of Business and the university. They help coordinate special events, recruit prospective students, meet and greet parents, and visit with our business alumni.
The purpose of our student ambassador program is to promote the College of Business through several different avenues such as recruiting, events, and networking with alumni.
No single system can provide all the information an organization needs. Even small firms have a collection of different systems: e-mail systems, sales tracking systems, etc. Different systems can be described through: A functional perspective : Identifying systems by their major business function A constituency perspective : Identifying systems in terms of the major organizational groups that they serve There are four main types of information systems that serve different functional systems: Sales and marketing information systems help the firm with marketing business processes identifying customers for the firm's products or services, developing products and services to meet their needs, promoting products and services and sales processes selling the products and services, taking orders, contacting customers, and providing customer support.
Managers gain access to the organizational data through the MIS, which provides them with the appropriate reports. In simple cases, a manager can create a spreadsheet and try changing some of the numbers. For instance, a manager could create a spreadsheet to show the amount of overtime required if the number of workers increases or decreases. With models, the manager enters into the computer the values that describe a particular situation, and the program computes the results.
Marketing executives at a furniture company could run DSS models that use sales data and demographic assumptions to develop forecasts of the types of furniture that would appeal to the fastest-growing population groups.
Companies can use a predictive analytics program to improve their inventory management system and use big data to target customer segments for new products and line extensions. These systems provide specific information for strategic decisions. An expert system gives managers advice similar to what they would get from a human consultant. Artificial intelligence enables computers to reason and learn to solve problems in much the same way humans do, using what-if reasoning.
Although they are expensive and difficult to create, expert systems are finding their way into more companies as more applications are found. Lower-end expert systems can even run on mobile devices. The cost of hiring enough people to do these ongoing analytical tasks would be prohibitively expensive. Expert systems have also been used to help explore for oil, schedule employee work shifts, and diagnose illnesses.
Some expert systems take the place of human experts, whereas others assist them. A management information system consists of a transaction processing system, management support systems, and an office automation system. Management support systems help managers make better decisions. Executive information systems are customized to the needs of top management. Skip to content Using Technology to Manage Information.
Decisions, Decisions: Management Support Systems Transaction processing systems automate routine and tedious back-office processes such as accounting, order processing, and financial reporting.
Decision Support Systems A decision support system DSS helps managers make decisions using interactive computer models that describe real-world processes.
Decision support systems help businesses by providing quantitative data and predictive models that aid problem-solving and decision-making. Now the health-care industry wants this technology in hospitals to improve the practice of medicine. Spearheading the effort for a clinical decision-support system is the American Medical Informatics Association, which believes a national DSS could help physicians with diagnosing and treating illnesses.
What are the pros and cons to having medical professionals rely on a DSS for help in treating patients? Expert Systems An expert system gives managers advice similar to what they would get from a human consultant.
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