Question

In your final project you will be presenting your understanding of certain components of a Management Information System for an existing business. In order to complete this process, you will need to choose a company/industry and research the specific Management Information System of that company.

1. Select a company of that you are familiar with or you feel is relevant in today’s business world.
2. Discuss why you have selected that company and provide a brief synopsis of what the company does and how you feel that it will be a good selection for your final project.

*300 Words

Answer 1

1)

Let me select a company John Deere, this company is much familiar with its business operations like Agricultural machinery or equipments manufacturing and construction machinery manufacturing. They provide manufacturing services to major sectors of the country like India. Such Major sectors are Agriculture, construction and infrastructure development.

2)

I have selected this company, as Management Information system plays a strong role for this company. This company has several functions. They require proper connectivity or communication over time and information has to be shared, distributed and kept in proper and privacy mode as per needs and such data collection from each department and sharing with various level of management would take crucial role in fulfilling strategic objective of the organizational business.

Company does spend their time into design of several machineries and they build several model of similar machineries or equipments, they produce prototypes to check the functioning of each machine item or unit. They do manufacture Agri-machineries and they also provide aftermarket services to the customers. Most of their customers include from agricultural sectors and they have dealership connectivity to push their products to the right channel and they have services facilities to care all the products over long time. Major functions are Production, under production, we could get Cutting and material preparation area, fabrication, machining area, assembly area, painting and shot blasting area. Other functions are sales and marketing, finance and accounting, Human Resource, planning departments, credit control departments, etc.

Here, I will be performing research on Management information system. This company would be good selection for my project as this company handles several data and information, we could analyze all the applicable information, further we can draw out reports that would help management to take critical decisions. Every business are driven by critical decisions, here, we could build computer system that will assist us to analyze daily available information. For example: company wants to fix number of units they are actually capable to manufacture, here, they needs several inputs data like current man power, current availability of spaces, available machineries and their hourly capacity, funding sources and budget allocation, etc. with all such data, they could conduct evaluation practices as to come into a conclusion regarding the number of units that they want to prepare in a year.