¶ … M.I.S. And S. ubway Background Importance of M.I.S in Contemporary Society

Technology has indeed gone far in influencing the lives of many people. With the different innovations that were born out of technology, the daily living of the society seems to have been touched by technology. One element of technology that greatly affects our society is Management Information Systems (MIS).

Management Information System has been a part of the many activities in our daily lives. For instance, every time we use our ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) cards, we may not be aware that management information system works for us to help us withdraw money. Or, in the hospital, we can see how hospital staffs can easily retrieve our hospital records just by asking our name and typing it in the computer. Moreover, when you use your fare card to ride a metro train or a bus, do you wonder how the card machines know how much money to obtain from your card? These are all examples of how management works for us to automate and facilitate most of our activities, thus affecting our lives and the society's as well in positive ways. With management information system, an ATM machine is able to know if your account has the...

Also, a hospital staff no longer needs to find your information from a pile of paper-based hospital records. With just one click on a computer, the system that manages patient records will be able to instantly provide the stored information. And, in the metro train's card machine, it is able to know how much money to deduct from your card because of the system that manages the information of where you came from and where you're alighting.
Perhaps, the area that has been mostly influenced by management information system are the businesses and industries that are the main source of the society's sustenance to living. With management information system, businesses continuously improve and grow, both in terms of operation and in terms of financial revenues. Thus, with the success of the companies and businesses, the employees, which comprise the large part of the society, similarly benefits from the advantages and gains that management information systems bring to their companies. Rosenthal (2004) indicates the following as to how management information system influences the "used-to-be" paper-based information management of hospitals.

Paper-based…