The Management

of
Managerial Information System

Jonathan Ceasar D .
Santos
MBA - Olivares College
Management Information
System
1.The Chief Information Officer
2.Responsibilities and Role of CEO
3.Strategic MIS Management
4.Project Selection
5.Pricing Products
6.Budgeting
7.Evaluating MIS Function
The Chief Information Officer
 - The chief information
officer (CIO) is a job title for
the board level head of
information technology within
an organization.

 Role of the CIO
- is also sometimes used
interchangeably with the
chief technology officer role,
although they may be slightly
different.
 CIO's Top 10 concerns

• People leadership Compliance

• Managing budgets Resource
management
• Business alignment
Managing customers
• Infrastructure
Managing change
Refresh
Board politics
• Security
 Position Purpose

• accountable for directing

the information and data
integrity of the enterprise
and its groups and for all
Information Technology
functions of the enterprise.
• Data centers
• Technical service centers
• Production scheduling functions
• Help desks
• Communication networks
 (voice and data)
• Computer program development
• Computer systems operations
 What is a CEO?

• Is (usually) the singular

organizational position that is
primarily responsible to carry out
the strategic plans and policies
as established by the board of
directors.
 Responsibilities of CEO

• Develop a strategic plan to

advance the company's
mission and objectives and to
promote revenue, profitability,
and growth as an
organization.

 Role of CEO
• General Operations
• Financial Issues
• Liabilities / Risks / Time Bombs
• Regulatory / Legal / Litigation
• Product lines / Marketing / Sales /
Distribution
• Personnel Issues
•
 Role of CEO
• IPO / Merger / Acquisition /
Disposition / Dissolution
• General / Administrative
• Stockholder Status / Investor Relations
• The Next Steps

Strategic MIS Management
 Project Selection

• a process for awarding

grants to existing or potential
partner organizations to
implement projects.
 Criteria for Selection
• relevance to the NGO/CBO
support provider’s (NSP)
programme objectives and
priorities
• geographical coverage
• suitability of approach

 Criteria for Selection

• appropriateness of budget
• feasibility
• potential impact
• epidemiological relevance.

 Issue to consider

• In selecting projects, NSPs

may want to consider how
each individual project
relates to the others and
contributes to the balance of
their portfolio.

 Pricing Products

• To establish a selling price

for a product.
•
 Basic Rules of Pricing
• All prices must cover costs and profits.
• The most effective way to lower prices is
to lower costs.
• Review prices frequently to assure that
they reflect the dynamics of cost, market
demand, response to the competition,
and profit objectives.
• Prices must be established to assure
sales.

 When is the right time?
• You introduce a new product or product line;
• Your costs change;
• You decide to enter a new market;
• Your competitors change their prices;
• The economy experiences either inflation or
recession;
• Your sales strategy changes; or
• Your customers are making more money
because of your product or service.

 Pricing Basics
• Overhead Expenses
– Fixed expenses
– Variable expenses
 Cost of Goods Sold
 Determining Margin
Product Pricng Strategies

• Costs
• Price Sensitivity
• Competition
• Product Lifecycle
 Budgeting

• A process of planning expenses and

revenues.
• A plan for saving and spending.
 Purpose of Budgeting

• Enable the actual financial

operation of the business
to be measured against
the forecast.

 Evaluating MIS Function
• Senior Executives feel very strongly that
corporate MIS function should be
evaluated in one way or other due to
large amount of investment in the
information processing technology
• To assess if the benefits received from
MIS are commensurate with the level of
expenditure incurred on it.
 Evaluating MIS Function
• To assign MIS the status of being a
function of management like production
and marketing.
• To evaluate the efficacy of MIS function in
the organization over time.
• To ascertain the competitiveness of the
MIS of one organization as compared to
the competitors.